fracture

Plural: fractures

Noun

• breaking of hard tissue such as bone
  • "it was a nasty fracture"
• (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
• the act of cracking something
• An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
• A break in bone or cartilage.
• A fault or crack in a rock.

Verb

Verb Forms: fractured, fracturing, fractures

• To break or cause to break, especially a bone or hard object.
• violate or abuse
  • "This writer really fractures the language"
• interrupt, break, or destroy
  • "fracture the balance of power"
• break into pieces
  • "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"
• become fractured
  • "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe"
• break (a bone)
• fracture a bone of
• To break, or cause something to break.
• To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.

Examples

• The unexpected triple-word score threatened to FRACTURE his opponent’s winning streak.

Synonyms

break, crack, cracking, fault, faulting, geological fault, shift

Related Words

fractal, fraction, fragment

Anagrams of fracture