To coat something with breadcrumbs, or to make something bread-like in texture or appearance.
Archaic or dialectal verb form combining bread + -en suffix (meaning to make or become). Rare in modern usage.
This archaic verb shows how English speakers once created action words by simply adding -en to objects—'breaden' means 'to make breadlike,' a pattern we see in verbs like 'blacken' or 'lighten.'
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