Brecciate

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  • transitive verb. To form (rock) into breccia.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To break or shatter (the solid rock): a process common in the faulting and folding of strata. It is one of the methods of origin of the rock known as breccia.
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  • verb. form into breccia
  • verb. break into breccia
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract