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In natural English speech, "friable" appears in contexts such as: "Citadel, who will not be sorry to hear it. The damp had rendered it friable, and Dantes was able to break it off in small morsels, it is true, but at the end of a half an hour, he had". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

IPA/ˈfɹaɪəbl̩/

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Citadel, who will not be sorry to hear it.

The damp had rendered it friable, and Dantes was able to break it off in small morsels, it is true, but at the end of a half an hour, he had

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adjective

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.”

Synonyms:crumbly

adjective

Of soil, loose and large-grained in consistency.

“Sand has been incorporated to make the soil more friable.”

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