1.  fracture(n = noun.state) break - breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall"
is a kind of harm, hurt, injury, trauma
has particulars: comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, open fracture, compression fracture, depressed fracture, displaced fracture, fatigue fracture, stress fracture, capillary fracture, hairline fracture, incomplete fracture, impacted fracture, closed fracture, simple fracture
Derived forms verb fracture₆, verb fracture₅, verb fracture₄, verb fracture₃

2.  fracture(n = noun.object) break, fault, faulting, geological fault, shift - (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"
is a kind of cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, scissure
has parts: fault line
has particulars: inclined fault, strike-slip fault
Derived form verb fracture₃

3.  fracture(n = noun.act) crack, cracking - the act of cracking something;
is a kind of break, breakage, breaking
Derived forms verb fracture₆, verb fracture₅, verb fracture₃

1.  fracture(v = verb.change) - violate or abuse; "This writer really fractures the language"
is one way to abuse, misuse, pervert
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

2.  fracture(v = verb.creation) - interrupt, break, or destroy; "fracture the balance of power"
is one way to destroy, destruct
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

3.  fracture(v = verb.change) - break into pieces; "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"
is one way to break
Derived forms noun fracture₃, noun fracture₂, noun fracture₁
Sample sentences: The girls fracture the wooden sticks; These glasses fracture easily

4.  fracture(v = verb.body) - become fractured; "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe"
is one way to break, break off, discontinue, stop
Derived form noun fracture₁
Sample sentences: The wooden sticks fracture

5.  fracture(v = verb.body) - break (a bone); "She broke her clavicle"
Derived forms noun fracture₃, noun fracture₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

6.  fracture(v = verb.body) break - fracture a bone of; "I broke my foot while playing hockey"
is one way to injure, wound
Derived forms noun fracture₃, noun fracture₁
Sample sentences: Did he fracture his foot?

1.  The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach. [1913 Webster]

2.  The breaking of a bone. [1913 Webster]

3.  The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture. [1913 Webster]

   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. [1913 Webster]

fracture, n. & v.
--n.
1 a breakage or breaking, esp. of a bone or cartilage. b the result of breaking; a crack or split.
2 the surface appearance of a freshly broken rock or mineral.
3 Linguistics a the substitution of a diphthong for a simple vowel owing to an influence esp. of a following consonant. b a diphthong substituted in this way.
--v.intr. & tr.
1 Med. undergo or cause to undergo a fracture.
2 break or cause to break.

Etymology:
ME f. F fracture or f. L fractura (as FRACTION)

N  disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.

N  discontinuity, disjunction, anacoluthon, interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut, gap, solution of continuity, caesura, broken thread, parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork, intermission, alternation, dropping fire, discontinuous, unsuccessive, broken, interrupted, dicousu, disconnected, unconnected, discrete, disjunctive, fitful, spasmodic, desultory, intermitting, occasional, intermittent, alternate, recurrent, at intervals, by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by fits and starts, skippingly, per saltum, longo intervallo, like 'angel visits few and far between'.

capillary fracture, closed fracture, comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, compression fracture, depressed fracture, displaced fracture, fatigue fracture, greenstick fracture, hairline fracture, impacted fracture, incomplete fracture, open fracture, simple fracture, stress fracture