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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To form (rock) into breccia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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
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