break
verb (used with object)
to smash, split, or divide into parts violently; reduce to pieces or fragments.
breakableness
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a word derived from
break.
Example Sentences
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"I fancy that the breakableness is in the nature of the heart itself, and not of the iconoclast," said Cecil.
From The Farringdons by Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft
