Fracture
//ˈfɹæk.tjə// noun, verb, slang
noun, verb, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
- 2 the act of cracking something wordnet
- 3 A break in bone or cartilage.
- 4 (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other wordnet
- 5 A fault or crack in a rock.
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- 6 breaking of hard tissue such as bone wordnet
Verb
- 1 To break, or cause something to break. ambitransitive
- 2 fracture a bone of wordnet
- 3 To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides. slang, transitive
"“You fracture me, Frankie,” Patsy said. “You should take that act on the road. Howsabout now?” This is the way it would go whenever I showed up at Patsy's, a dual of digs and wisecracks with the disapproving groans of those within earshot."
- 4 become fractured wordnet
- 5 violate or abuse wordnet
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- 6 break into pieces wordnet
- 7 interrupt, break, or destroy wordnet
Example
More examples"The pain from the compound fracture was almost intolerable."
Etymology
From Middle English fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin frāctūra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle frāctus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.
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