crushable

adjective

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as in friable

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Recent Examples of crushable Those beds of lightweight, crushable material at the end of a runway have been credited by the FAA with helping save at least 497 lives aboard planes that overran runways. — David Fischer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026 Many have installed Engineered Materials Arresting Systems — essentially, crushable materials at the ends of runways designed to help stop planes that overrun the runway. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 Sep. 2026 The runways at Miami International are not equipped with Arrestor Beds, also known as an Engineered Material Arresting System (EMAS) – a pad of crushable material placed at the end of the runway to stop an aircraft from overrunning. — Amanda Musa, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026 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
  • Sets with unbreakable backboards and breakaway rims are the best type for children because breakable boards and rigid rims can lead to the little ones hurting their fingers.
    — BestReviews, Mercury News, 24 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of breakable
Adjective
  • Sand-like granules collecting in gutters, curling or missing shingles, brittle or cracking shingles, sagging sections and indoor leaks or ceiling stains are the standard indicators that a roof is failing.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Studying an intact oarfish is remarkably difficult because their bodies typically disintegrate into brittle segments upon death.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of brittle
Adjective
  • In the close quarters of the boat, the family’s fragile equilibrium, long organised around his volatility, begins to crack.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Pencil shavings, fragile and featherlike, also turned into earrings.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 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
  • Over the past decade, cyberattacks against the education sector have risen expeditiously, exposing sensitive data, temporarily disrupting school operations and affecting students' learning.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Deisseroth, a Stanford professor, helped adapt a light-sensitive protein discovered by Hegemann and Nagel into a way to control nerve cells in living mice.
    — Kostya Manenkov, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of sensitive

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“Crushable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crushable. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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