breakable

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   Able to break or be broken.

   • The accident was also one of several since Clapham […] that demonstrated the role of breakable windows in the death toll. RSSB research would later confirm and reinforce the need for laminated glass to protect passengers and increase surviv
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   Fragile.

   • Next Christmas she sent us bisque dolls, very lovely but too breakable to hug; we could not even kiss them but they cracked.

syn. frangible · fragile

ant. unbreakable

1. 1

   Something that is (easily) breakable.

   • We had to wrap all the breakables before the movers arrived.
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   A set of customized hardware that is part of a drum kit. Breakables typically consist of: the drummer's cymbals including high-hats, the snare drum, the kick pedal and the drummer's stool.plural-normally