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1. (n.) fracture
the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition.
2. fracture
the act of breaking or the state of being broken.
3. fracture
a break; split.
4. fracture
the characteristic manner of breaking.
5. fracture
the characteristic appearance of a broken surface, as of a mineral.
6. (v.t.) fracture
to cause or to suffer a fracture in.
7. fracture
to break; crack.
8. fracture
Slang. to amuse highly.
9. (v.i.) fracture
to become fractured; break.
Etymology: (1375–1425; late ME < MF < L frāctūra a breach, cleft, fracture)
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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. (verb) 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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1. (noun) fracture
a thin crack in sth hard
a fracture in her ankle; He fractured his elbow.
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) fracture
the act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach
2. (noun) fracture
the breaking of a bone
3. (noun) fracture
the texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture
4. (verb) fracture
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
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Sense: a break of anything hard, especially a bone
a fracture of the left thigh-bone.
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 Afrikaans: breuk |
 Arabic: كَسْر، شَجَّـه |
 Bulgarian: счупване |
 Brazilian: fratura |
 Czech: zlomenina |
 German: der Bruch |
 Danish: brud |
 Greek: κάταγμα, θλάση |
 Spanish: fractura |
 Estonian: (luu)murd |
 Farsi: شکستگی |
 Finnish: murtuma |
 French: fracture |
 Hebrew: שֶׁבֶר |
 Hindi: टूटना, भंजन |
 Croatian: lom, prijelom (kosti) |
 Hungarian: (csont)törés |
 Indonesian: patahan |
 Icelandic: (bein)brot |
 Italian: frattura |
 Japanese: 骨折 |
 Korean: 골절 |
 Lithuanian: lūžis |
 Latvian: lūzums |
 Malay: patahan |
 Dutch: breuk |
 Norwegian: (bein)brudd |
 Polish: złamanie |
 Persian: شکستگی |
 Pashto: درز، كسر، ماتوالى، چاود |
 Portuguese: fractura |
 Romanian: fractură |
 Russian: перелом; трещина |
 Slovak: zlomenina |
 Slovenian: zlom |
 Serbian: fraktura |
 Swedish: fraktur, [ben]brott |
 Thai: การแตก; การร้าว (โดยเฉพาะ |
 Turkish: kırık, çatlak |
 Taiwanese: 折斷 |
 Ukrainian: перелом |
 Urdu: کسی سخت چیز کا ٹوٹنا |
 Vietnamese: sự gãy, vỡ (nhất là xương |
 Chinese: 折断 |
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