firebreak
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6.1
- noun
- /ˈfaɪərˌbreɪk/
- Specialized
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cortafuegos
- Local volunteers worked together to create a firebreak in the forest to help stop any potential fire.
Examples
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Make a firebreak at the edge of the Patch.
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We must dig a firebreak along these hilltops.
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Now we have a nice firebreak on the south side of town!
Blog text (21) -
And you make a nice, wide firebreak.
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The firebreak must be wider.
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There's a firebreak road not too far on the other side.
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Here, a firebreak led down the hill, passing between two tall pines.
Academic text (1999) -
Nearly 7 percent of the residential units had been torn down to make firebreaks.
Blog text (9) -
Row after row of test plots spread across the site, around which a large fence and firebreaks have been constructed.
Academic text (2000) -
The place where it had burned along the hills made a firebreak—an area where fire wouldn't easily cross.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
A cleared strip of land that stops a forest fire from spreading
Antonyms
How Wide
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Firebreak is formed from fire and break, where break means 'a gap' or 'to stop', so it originally named a cleared strip of land that makes a gap to stop a fire from moving.