crushable

adjective

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as in friable

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Recent Examples of crushable Their tropical cocktails and frozen delights are easily crushable, primarily made with vodka, mezcal, rum and tequila. — Blair Crosby, AJC.com, 5 July 2026 Will Irene make out with Phil and crush June’s easily crushable heart? — Alice Burton, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026 And the Spanish gin and tonic, an easily crushable, clean and bright cocktail, is art in a glass, served with lemon, peppercorns and a veritable garden of fresh herbs floating within. — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crushable
  1. friable
  2. breakable
  3. brittle
  4. fragile
  5. frangible
  6. sensitive
Adjective
  • The soil is peat dark, friable, and gravid with potatoes, onions, sugar beet, lettuce, maize, and wheat that moves in dry, whispering sheets.
    — Rob Crossan, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 July 2026
  • The second bottle, with confetti-ish contents, was equally useless—whatever had been inside had broken down into a friable mess.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2026
Definition of friable
Adjective
  • Water in hot springs can cause severe or fatal burns, and scalding water underlies most of the thin, breakable crust around hot springs.
    — Eve Chen, USA Today, 21 July 2026
  • If public-key cryptography becomes breakable, attackers can impersonate services, weaken the handshakes that set up secure sessions and forge signatures that make malicious code look legitimate.
    — Kumar Mehta, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
Definition of breakable
Adjective
  • Ash trees are prone to emerald ash borers that weaken the wood and risk damage from brittle limbs that eventually fall.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Extending the plant’s life through 2045 means 15 more years of nuclear waste and seismic risk as the 1980s-era plant gets older and more brittle.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of brittle
Adjective
  • Fiber-optic cables—the same technology that carries much of today’s internet traffic—can transmit fragile quantum information over long distances.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2026
  • The country is mired in a war with Iran with no graceful exit opportunities; a new round of tariffs threatens to further disrupt fragile global trade relations; and the domestic economy faces inflation combined with paltry growth.
    — Zachary Karabell, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of fragile
Adjective
  • But in the vast majority of cases, the planes come safely to a stop, saved in part by zones around runways that are supposed to contain only structures that are frangible, meaning designed to break easily upon impact.
    — Grace Moon, New York Times, 1 May 2025
  • The barrier at the edge of the runway at Muan International Airport did not appear to be frangible, or have the ability to break apart, according to video footage and expert analysis, something investigators are likely to focus on.
    — Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of frangible
Adjective
  • Batteries can store electricity, but extreme cold can threaten sensitive electronics and other critical hardware.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2026
  • There are several hundred stars that closely orbit this giant black hole and are sensitive to its gravity.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of sensitive

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“Crushable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crushable. Accessed 25 Aug. 2026.

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