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Significados de friable em inglês

Easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder.

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Examples for "crumbly"
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Granny Agnes's 1887 recipe for thick, crumbly oatcakes is still used today.
The Guardian
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Rub this all together with the hands until well mixed and crumbly.
Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled During Her Visit A...
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If this is not done the paper deteriorates, becoming brittle and crumbly.
The Science of Fingerprints: Classification and Uses
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Driven in the crumbly snow between Eddy and me was one picket.
Rock and Ice Magazine
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Rub the flour and butter together until it is combined and crumbly.
The Irish Times

Friable.

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Uso de friable em inglês
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Its friable cliffs and strong tides produce a changeable and barren sea-floor.
Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
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The grave was a shallow one, the freshly turned mould loose and friable.
The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
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Start with the pastry, which is tricky to work with, but delightfully friable.
The Irish Times
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A ledge of friable sandstone 3½ feet thick lies next below the roof.
Archeological Investigations / Bureau of American Ethnology, Bul...
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The same field, well drained, is friable and porous, and uniform in texture.
Farm drainage / The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draini...
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Fifteen radicles which had germinated in friable peat were suspended vertically over water.
The Power of Movement in Plants
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It was some chalky, friable stuff, and it gave at the first friction.
The Rangeland Avenger
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And such bones are usually more or less weathered and friable.
The Vanishing Man: A Detective Romance
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I didn't want to descend the route we'd climbed, with its friable rock.
Climbing Magazine
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The wrapper was of tarred cloth, almost perished with age, dry and friable.
A Maid of the Silver Sea
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Is the soil equally friable at different times of the year?
Lessons on Soil
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Initial bronchoscopy demonstrated occluded subsegmental right upper lobe bronchus with white friable material.
Pubmed
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When a clot is relatively new it appears soft and what we call friable.
Wired
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The walls of the canyon are composed of friable sandstone, and are usually vertical.
Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
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It is a friable material, and cannot be caulked successfully.
The Water Supply of the El Paso and Southwestern Railway from Ca...
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Hydroxy groups in the sucrose will make the resin friable.
The Lost World
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