friable
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Latin friābilis, from friō (“to crumble”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
friable (comparative more friable, superlative most 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.
- (of poisons) Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk
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- 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.
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Synonyms [edit]
- (easily broken into small fragments): crumbly
Derived terms [edit]
See also [edit]
Translations [edit]
easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder
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loose and large-grained in consistency
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References [edit]
- friable in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- friable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Latin friābilis, from friō (“to crumble”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Adjective [edit]
friable (masculine and feminine, plural friables)
Derived terms [edit]
References [edit]
- “friable” in the Portail lexical, Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales, 2013.