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Noun fracture has 3 senses

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

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
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

fracture - violate or abuse; "This writer really fractures the language"
--₁ is one way to pervert, misuse, abuse
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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
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
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
fracture - break (a bone); "She broke her clavicle"

Derived forms: noun fracture₃, noun fracture₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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?