Thesaurus: fracture

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1. n. The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
2. n. The breaking of a bone.
3. n. The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.
4. v. t. To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.
5. n. breaking of hard tissue such as bone
6. n. (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
7. n. the act of cracking something
8. v. violate or abuse
9. v. interrupt, break, or destroy
10. v. break into pieces
11. v. become fractured
12. v. fracture a bone of