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🍗 Covered with crumbs 🍞 To give bread
to breaded

to breaded

9.9
Give people bread to eat
  • verb
  • /ˈbrɛdɪd/
  • Archaic
translation icon : dar de comer
  • Long ago, the community gathered to bread their children with nourishment and care.

Examples

  • Or are they still doomed due to being bread for fish store fish?

  • And the Czarina and bread the land and peace.

  • The villagers were often breaded by the kind merchant who shared loaves of bread with everyone.

  • In ancient times, it was common for leaders to bread the hungry by offering them freshly baked bread.

Surface Forms

bread infinitive
breading present participle
breads third person singular
broke past
broken past participle

Morphology

breaded = bread (semi-transparent) = bread + ed

Morphologically regular (verb 'bread' + -ed) but the sense is archaic and may not be obvious to learners.

Etymology

Breaded comes from the word bread, which means 'food made from grain'. A long time ago, to bread someone was 'to give them bread', so breaded could mean 'fed with bread' in old use.