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Noun fracture has 3 senses
  1. fracture, break - breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall"
    --1 is a kind of injury, hurt, harm, trauma
    --1 has particulars:
     comminuted fracture; complete fracture; compound fracture, open fracture; compression fracture; depressed fracture; displaced fracture; fatigue fracture, stress fracture; hairline fracture, capillary fracture; incomplete fracture; impacted fracture; simple fracture, closed fracture
    Derived forms: verb fracture6, verb fracture5, verb fracture4, verb fracture3
  2. fault, 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"
    --2 is a kind of crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure
    --2 has parts: fault line
    --2 has particulars:
     Denali Fault; inclined fault; San Andreas Fault; strike-slip fault
    Derived form: verb fracture3
  3. fracture, crack, cracking - the act of cracking something
    --3 is a kind of breakage, break, breaking
    Derived forms: verb fracture5, verb fracture6, verb fracture3
,Verb fracture has 6 senses
  1. fracture - violate or abuse; "This writer really fractures the language"
    --1 is one way to     pervert, misuse, abuse
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. fracture - interrupt, break, or destroy; "fracture the balance of power"
    --2 is one way to     destroy, destruct
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  3. fracture - break into pieces; "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"
    --3 is one way to     break
    Derived forms: noun fracture3, noun fracture1, noun fracture2
    Sample sentences:
    The girls fracture the wooden sticks
    These glasses fracture easily
  4. fracture - become fractured; "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe"
    --4 is one way to     break, break off, discontinue, stop
    Derived form: noun fracture1
    Sample sentence:
    The wooden sticks fracture
  5. fracture - break (a bone); "She broke her clavicle"
    Derived forms: noun fracture3, noun fracture1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  6. fracture, break - fracture a bone of; "I broke my foot while playing hockey"
    --6 is one way to injure, wound
    Derived forms: noun fracture3, noun fracture1
    Sample sentence:
    Did he fracture his foot?
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