fracture
fracture is a 8-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
- noun. The breaking of a bone.
- noun. The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.
- transitive verb. 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.
- noun. the act of cracking something
- noun. (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"
- noun. breaking of hard tissue such as bone
"it was a nasty fracture"
"the break seems to have been caused by a fall"
- verb. fracture a bone of
"I broke my foot while playing hockey"
- verb. break (a bone)
"She broke her clavicle"
- verb. become fractured
"The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe"
- verb. violate or abuse
"This writer really fractures the language"
- verb. break into pieces
"The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"
- verb. interrupt, break, or destroy
"fracture the balance of power"
Synonyms
crack, cracking, break, fault, faulting, shift
Common word forms
fractured, fracturer, fractures, fracturing
Words from these letters
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