n. | 1. | The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach. | ||||||||||||
2. | (Surg.) The breaking of a bone. | |||||||||||||
3. | (Min.) The texture of a freshly broken surface;
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v. t. | 1. | To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; |
Noun | 1. | fracture - breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall" Synonyms: break |
2. | fracture - (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault" | |
3. | fracture - the act of cracking something | |
Verb | 1. | fracture - violate or abuse; "This writer really fractures the language" |
2. | fracture - interrupt, break, or destroy; "fracture the balance of power" | |
3. | fracture - break into pieces; "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle" | |
4. | fracture - become fractured; "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe" | |
5. | fracture - break (a bone); "She broke her clavicle" | |
6. | fracture - fracture a bone of; "I broke my foot while playing hockey" Synonyms: break |