frangible

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In Williams's text, Laura's glass animals, tiny and glittering in presumed contradistinction to the drabness of the "old-fashioned what-not" that houses them, are the lustrous yet frangible icons of "beauty," of hopes that will never be realized.

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  1. adjective Capable of being broken; breakable. See Synonyms at fragile.

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  • She could actually feel how frangible it was, and she loathed herself for reacting to him. —  With No One as Witness
  • Indeed, no sooner had he relaxed his posture and settled back into his seat, with a long breath and a frangible whimper, than he began to formulate ... well, if not a cunning strategy at least a fresh approach. —  Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
  • In Williams's text, Laura's glass animals, tiny and glittering in presumed contradistinction to the drabness of the "old-fashioned what-not" that houses them, are the lustrous yet frangible icons of "beauty," of hopes that will never be realized. —  Victims on Broadway
  • Being frangible, the bullet disintegrates into tiny fragments upon impact with the tire, leaving little evidence to the untrained eye situation. —  The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public
  • The guns have special kind of frangible bullets that are designed not to pierce the skin of an airplane. —  CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2005
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin frangibilis, from Latin frangere, to break; see bhreg- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English frangebyll (once), from Old French and F. frangible = Spanish frangible = Portuguese frangivel = Italian frangibile, from Latin frangere, break: see frangent.
 

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/ˈfrændʒɪbl/
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