friable
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Latin friābilis, from friō (“to crumble”).
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[edit] Adjective
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.
- 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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[edit] Synonyms
- (easily broken into small fragments): crumbly
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[edit] Translations
easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder
loose and large-grained in consistency
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[edit] References
- friable in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- friable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
Latin friābilis, from friō (“to crumble”).
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Adjective
friable (epicene, plural friables)
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] References
- “friable” in the Portail lexical, Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales, 2012.
