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00708017-a:
capable of being broken or damaged
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04939547-n:
firm but easily broken
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00043003-r:
(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result
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00147876-r:
with ease (`easy' is sometimes used informally for `easily')
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00335366-v:
break into pieces
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00336260-v:
become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
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00337065-v:
break suddenly and abruptly, as under tension
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05020358-n:
the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed
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00505512-v:
make (glassy materials) brittle or opaque
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00505620-v:
make brittle
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02446931-a:
tender and brittle
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02997391-n:
an artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures
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04184701-n:
a broken piece of a brittle artifact
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07598734-n:
candy that is brittle
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07598928-n:
a brittle transparent candy made by melting and cooling cane sugar
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07600394-n:
a hard brittle candy made with butter and brown sugar
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07684164-n:
brittle flat bread eaten at Passover
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07766173-n:
Chinese fruit having a thin brittle shell enclosing a sweet jellylike pulp and a single seed; often dried
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09266604-n:
a domed rock formation where a core of rock has moved upward and pierced through the more brittle overlying strata
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11614039-n:
small pine of western North America; having smooth grey-white bark and soft brittle wood; similar to limber pine
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11643354-n:
a brittle and faintly aromatic translucent resin used in varnishes
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11707229-n:
yellowwood tree with brittle wood and aromatic leaves and bark; source of sassafras oil; widely distributed in eastern North America
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11963932-n:
fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine
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12588320-n:
Brazilian fan palm having an edible root; source of a useful leaf fiber and a brittle yellowish wax
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12716400-n:
tree of the Amazon valley yielding a light brittle timber locally regarded as resistant to insect attack
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12753007-n:
a common North American maple tree; five-lobed leaves are light green above and silvery white beneath; source of hard close-grained but brittle light-brown wood
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12926689-n:
cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca
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13009780-n:
large genus of fungi with stout stems and white spores and neither annulus nor volva; brittle caps of red or purple or yellow or green or blue; differs from genus Lactarius in lacking milky juice
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13196003-n:
delicate fern widely distributed in North America and European having thin pinnatifid fronds with brittle stems
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13228536-n:
any of several tropical ferns of the genus Christella having thin brittle fronds
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14158424-n:
autosomal dominant disorder of connective tissue characterized by brittle bones that fracture easily
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14631295-n:
a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
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14631502-n:
a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals
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14635092-n:
a hard brittle multivalent metallic element; resistant to corrosion and tarnishing
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14638256-n:
a rare silvery (usually trivalent) metallic element; brittle at low temperatures but liquid above room temperature; occurs in trace amounts in bauxite and zinc ores
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14638517-n:
a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite
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14642219-n:
a heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group; used in alloys; occurs in natural alloys with platinum or osmium
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14644654-n:
a hard brittle grey polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic; used in making steel; occurs in many minerals
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14647907-n:
a hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals; the heaviest metal known
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14657228-n:
a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold
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14661977-n:
a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende
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14801921-n:
an alloy of iron containing so much carbon that it is brittle and so cannot be wrought but must be shaped by casting
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14805145-n:
a chemical compound that is a constituent of steel and cast iron; very hard and brittle
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14881303-n:
a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
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14895189-n:
a brittle aromatic resin used in varnishes
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14896128-n:
translucent brittle substance produced from pine oleoresin; used especially in varnishes and inks and on the bows of stringed instruments
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