friable
形容词 adj.
发音 frī'ə-bəl
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
— 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.
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Of soil, loose and large-grained in consistency.
— Sand has been incorporated to make the soil more friable.
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Of a poison, likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk.
— It is when asbestos-containing products are friable that hazardous asbestos fibers are likely to be released and sent airborne.
- Of a number: smooth, that factors completely into small prime numbers.
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Borrowed from French friable, from Latin friābilis (“friable”), from friō (“to crumble”).
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