WordWeb Online

1. Breaking of hard tissue such as bone
   "it was a nasty fracture";
   - break
    
2. (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 fracture";
   - fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, break
    
3. The act of cracking something
   - crack, cracking

1. Violate or abuse
   "This writer really fractures the language"
    
2. Interrupt, break, or destroy
   "fracture the balance of power"
    
3. Break into pieces
   "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"
    
4. Become fractured
   "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe"
    
5. Break (a bone)
    
6. Fracture a bone of
   "I fractured my foot while playing hockey";
   - break

Derived forms: fractured, fractures, fracturing

Type of: abuse, break, break off, breakage, breaking, cleft, crack, crevice, destroy, destruct, discontinue, fissure, harm, hurt, injure, injury, misuse, pervert, scissure, spifflicate [Brit, informal], spiflicate [Brit, informal], stop, trauma, uncreate [literary], wound

Encyclopedia: Fracture