friable
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
friable
- Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
- 1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve:
- Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between the friable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago.
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1020:
- This light, friable type of material offered excellent insulation against both desert heat and also the cold of darkness during the winter.
- 1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve:
- (of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency.
- 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:
- So while two men under his directions were digging the grave with sticks in the friable granitic soil, he superintended the costume of the other actors in the drama.
- 1890, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough:
- (of poisons) Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk
- April 1987, Old-House Journal
- It is when asbestos-containing products are friable that hazardous asbestos fibers are likely to be released and sent airborne.
- April 1987, Old-House Journal
- (math, of a number) smooth: that factors completely into small prime numbers.
- (easily broken into small fragments) crumbly
- French: friable, cassant
- German: brüchig, krümelig
- Italian: friabile
- Portuguese: friável
- Russian: тре́скающийся
- Spanish: friable, frágil, quebradizo, desmenuzable
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