fracture

Nouns

  • (n) breaking of hard tissue such as bone
    • it was a nasty fracture
    • the break seems to have been caused by a fall
    break,
  • (n) (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
    • he studied the faulting of the earth's crust
    faulting, geological fault, break, fault, shift,
  • (n) the act of cracking something cracking, crack,

Verbs

  • (v) violate or abuse
    • This writer really fractures the language
  • (v) interrupt, break, or destroy
    • fracture the balance of power
  • (v) break into pieces
    • The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle
  • (v) become fractured
    • The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe
  • (v) break (a bone)
    • She broke her clavicle
  • (v) fracture a bone of
    • I broke my foot while playing hockey
    break,

Synonyms

break faulting geological fault fault shift cracking crack

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