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Adjective fractured has 1 sense

fractured - used of a break or crack or tear in bone or cartilage; "serious injuries such as broken bones and fractured skulls"
Antonym: unbroken (indirect, via broken)

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?