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EMBRITTLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does embrittle mean?
• EMBRITTLE (verb)
The verb EMBRITTLE has 1 sense:
1. make brittle
Familiarity information: EMBRITTLE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they embrittle ... he / she / it embrittles
Past simple: embrittled
Past participle: embrittled
-ing form: embrittling
... he / she / it embrittles Past simple: embrittled
Past participle: embrittled
-ing form: embrittling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make brittle
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "embrittle" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "embrittle"):
devitrify (make (glassy materials) brittle or opaque)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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