1. (noun)fracture, break breaking of hard tissue such as bone "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall"
2. (noun)fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break (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"
3. (noun)fracture, crack, cracking the act of cracking something
4. (verb)fracture violate or abuse "This writer really fractures the language"
5. (verb)fracture interrupt, break, or destroy "fracture the balance of power"
6. (verb)fracture break into pieces "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"
7. (verb)fracture become fractured "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe"
8. (verb)fracture break (a bone) "She broke her clavicle"
9. (verb)fracture, break fracture a bone of "I broke my foot while playing hockey"
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