Meaning & use
Breakables
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Items, especially glass or ceramic objects, that are fragile and easily broken.
See it in a sentence
Label the box "breakables" before the movers load it onto the truck.
Keep the breakables away from the edge of the shelf.
A note on using this word
The word is almost always used in the plural, most commonly on packing labels and moving boxes.
Words with a similar meaning
fragilesfragile items
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Words with an opposite meaning
unbreakablessturdy items
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