Dictionary Entry
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.
8 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
- 2noun
The breaking of a bone.
- 3noun
The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.
- 4transitive 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.
- 5noun
the act of cracking something
- 6noun
(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"
- 7noun
breaking of hard tissue such as bone
"it was a nasty fracture"
"the break seems to have been caused by a fall"
Synonyms
- 8verb
fracture a bone of
"I broke my foot while playing hockey"
Synonyms
- 9verb
break (a bone)
"She broke her clavicle"
- 10verb
become fractured
"The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe"
- 11verb
violate or abuse
"This writer really fractures the language"
- 12verb
break into pieces
"The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"
- 13verb
interrupt, break, or destroy
"fracture the balance of power"
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