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fracture

noun

1 fracture

Breaking of hard tissue such as bone:
— It was a nasty fracture.

synonym: break.

Roget 44: disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement; discontinuity etc. 70; abjunction; cataclasm; inconnection; abstraction, abstractedness; ... show more

Dutch: botbreuk, breuk
Polish: złamanie

2 fracture

geology A crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other.

synonyms: break, fault, faulting, geological fault, shift.

Roget 70: discontinuity; disjunction etc. 44; anacoluthon; interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut; gap etc. ... show more

Dutch: breuk, breuklijn
Polish: uskok

3 fracture

The act of cracking something.

synonyms: crack, cracking.

verb

1 fracture

Violate or abuse.

2 fracture

Interrupt, break, or destroy.

3 fracture

Break into pieces.

4 fracture

Become fractured.

5 fracture

Break (a bone).

6 fracture

Fracture a bone of.

synonym: break.


Moby thesaurus: abrade, abrasion, abysm, abyss, amuse, arroyo, bark, beguile, blemish, bloody, box canyon, breach, break, break open, break up, breakage, breaking, burn, burst, bust ... show more.

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