327} brittleness &c adj.; fragility, friability, frangibility,
fissibility†; house of cards, house of glass.
V. be brittle &c adj.; live in a glass house.
break, crack, snap, split, shiver, splinter, crumble, break short,
burst, fly, give way; fall to pieces; crumble to, crumble into dust.
Adj. brittle, brash [U.S.], breakable, weak, frangible, fragile, frail,
gimcrack†, shivery, fissile; splitting &c v.; lacerable†, splintery,
crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.