Thesaurus: malleable

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1. a. Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
2. adj. easily influenced
3. adj. capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
4. Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron. -- Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon.
5. Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer,or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. Malleable iron,iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under thehammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron.-- Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and mademalleable by heating then for several days in the presence of somesubstance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of itscarbon.
6. j:100 s easily influenced s capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out