fracture

fracture has 13 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 8.

Definitions

• n.. The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
• n.. The breaking of a bone.
• n.. The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.
• v. t.. 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.
• n.. the act of cracking something
• n.. (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"
• n.. breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall"
• v.. fracture a bone of; "I broke my foot while playing hockey"
• v.. break (a bone); "She broke her clavicle"
• v.. become fractured; "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe"
• v.. violate or abuse; "This writer really fractures the language"
• v.. break into pieces; "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"