Crossword-Solution: FRIABLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Friable | a. | Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FRIABLE | anagram | LIFEBAR |
We have 20 clues for the answer “FRIABLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Easily crumbled, as rock | 1 answer |
| Mealy. | 3 answers |
| APT to crumble | 3 answers |
| Crumbly soil | 4 answers |
| pulverulent | 4 answers |
| ARENACEOUS | 5 answers |
| easily crumbled | 5 answers |
| AND CRUMBLY DRY | 10 answers |
| CHEESE CRUMBLY | 10 answers |
| Powdery | 12 answers |
| crumbled | 12 answers |
| flaky | 14 answers |
| Crunchy | 15 answers |
| Crumbly | 16 answers |
| Brittle | 23 answers |
| fragile | 59 answers |
| frail | 60 answers |
| Earthling | 61 answers |
| flimsy | 68 answers |
| Short | 99 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FRIABLE (5)
Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances.
This rock is soft and friable, and, under the influence of the heavy winter rains, it has been, without doubt, from a period long before human history, as it is now, cut ever into new shapes, and especially into pillars or columns, which sometimes bear a resemblance to the human form.
The dust of Richebourg, which the wind carries away, what an apotheosis of the dust! Not man himself can seem a stranger child of that brown, friable powder, than the blood and sun in that old flask behind the faggots.
The friable cliffs, of comparatively recent formations, keep the sea shallow, and the bottom smooth and bare, by the vast deposits of sand and gravel.
These materials, when mixed, became a friable mass, which he had found could be brought into such a cohesive, putty-like state by manipulation, as to be capable of being rolled out into filaments as fine as seven-thousandths of an inch in cross-section.
Quotes with FRIABLE (3)
Books are an absolute necessity. I always have at least two with me wherever I go, to say nothing of my digital collection, and whenever I can get my hands on a delicious new reading piece, I will finish it at a slackened pace, to savour it with all the esteem it deserves, gratulating in its pleasance, deliciating in every word with ardent affection. I have an extensive library that I could never do without, and there are at least four books decorating every surface in my hou…
Everything had shattered. The fact that it was all still there — the walls and the chairs and the children’s pictures on the walls — meant nothing. Every atom of it had been blasted apart and reconstituted in an instant, and its appearance of permanence and solidity was laughable; it would dissolve at a touch, for everything was suddenly tissue-thin and friable.
On first hearing that little voice — as fine and friable, I felt, as cotton thread, the impact on my soul was that of the highest magnitude of earthquake, those that occur every hundred years, say, or every thousand. The old shell I called myself cracked and was swallowed by a sudden crevasse, and just as suddenly was lost in the commotion.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1986–2005).