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breakle

The English word “breakle” has 1 meaning listed here.

adjective

  1. Apt to, capable of, or tending to break; fragile; brittle.

Etymology

From Middle English brekil, brikel, brukel, brokel (“easily broken or shattered, brittle, fragile”), from Old English *brycel, *brucol (as in hūsbrycel (“burglarious”, literally “tending to break into houses, i.e. "house-breakative"”), scipbrucol (“destructive to shipping, causing shipwreck”, literally “tending to break ships or shipping down, i.e. "ship-breakative"”)), from Proto-Germanic…

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