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EMBRITTLE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

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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