fracture
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(verb) fracture a bone of: "I broke my foot while playing hockey" |
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Synonyms: break |
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(verb) break: "She broke her clavicle" |
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(verb) become fractured: "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe" |
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Related Words: break, break off, discontinue, stop |
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(verb) violate or abuse; "This writer really fractures the language" |
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Related Words: abuse, misuse, pervert |
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(verb) break into pieces; "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle" |
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Related Words: break |
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(noun) the act of cracking something |
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Synonyms: crack, cracking |
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Related Words: break, breakage, breaking |
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(verb) interrupt, break, or destroy; "fracture the balance of power" |
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Related Words: destroy |
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(noun) breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall" |
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Synonyms: break |
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Related Words: closed fracture, comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, compression fracture, depressed fracture, displaced fracture, fatigue fracture, harm, hurt, impacted fracture, incomplete fracture, injury, open fracture, simple fracture, stress fracture, trauma |
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(noun) (geology) a fracture in the earth's crust with displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right on the San Andreas fault" |
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Synonyms: break, fault, fault line, geological fault |
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Related Words: San Andreas Fault, cleft, crack, crevice, fissure, inclined fault, scissure |
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