fracture has definitions from the fields of geology,medicine
1
[ verb ] violate or abuse

Examples

"This writer really fractures the language"

Used in print

(Rosemary Balckmon, "How Much Do You Tell When...)

Immediately thereafter , the patient fractures her rehearsed story , veering into an oversoft , breathy , sloppily articulated , `` I do n't feel_like talking right_now '' .

Related terms

pervert

2
[ noun ] (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

Examples

"they built it right over a geological fault"

3
[ verb ] fracture a bone of

Synonyms

break

Examples

: "I broke my foot while playing hockey"

Related terms

injure

4
[ verb ] break, as of a bone

Examples

: "She broke her clavicle"

Related terms

refracture

5
[ verb ] become fractured

Examples

: "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe"

Related terms

break

6
[ noun ] (medicine) breaking of hard tissue such as bone

Synonyms

break

Examples

"it was a nasty fracture" "the break seems to have been caused by a fall"

7
[ verb ] break into pieces

Examples

"The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"

Related terms

break break

8
[ verb ] interrupt, break, or destroy

Examples

"fracture the balance of power"

Related terms

destroy

9
[ noun ] the act of cracking something

Synonyms

cracking crack

Related terms

breakage crack

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