v. Obs. Also 3 breoðen; pa. pple. brothin. [OE. *bréoðan in abréoðan to go to ruin, decay, degenerate. Hence BRETHEL, BROTHEL.] intr. To go to ruin. Pa. pple. abroðen, broþin: degenerate, dissipated, self-ruined.
[a. 1000. Byrht., 242 (Gr.). Abreoðe his angin.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gram., viii. (Z.), 32. Eala þu abroðene folc!]
c. 1205. Lay., 5807. Ȝe sculleð breoðen. Ibid., 30415. Bruttes gunnen breoðen; balu wes on uolken. [1275 Ibid., 5196. Ne seh[s]te leofue broþer, hou breþiþ [c. 1205 breoðeð] þis Frence.
c. 1300. Sarmun, in E. E. P. (1862), 6. Al þat þou wan here wiþ pine a broþin eir sal wast it al.
