fracture

Meaning

Noun

1. An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.
2. A break in bone or cartilage.
3. A fault or crack in a rock.

Verb

1. (ambitransitive) To break, or cause something to break.
2. (slang, transitive) To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.

Synonyms

break

crack

split

rupture

fissure

breaking

breach

breakage

crevice

cracking

rift

failure

cleft

faulting

fault

break off

snap

smash

rent

break down

gap

abruption

breakdown

broken

broken bone

bust

chink

crush

demolish

destroy

disturb

fragmentation

shatter

shift

slit

slot

be cracked

violate

bone fracture

snap off

geological fault

rhegma

division

etc.

crevasse

fall apart

contravene

comminution

collapsing

fissured

fissuring

flaw

fragment

fracture surface

fragmenting

chop

impair

impress

infringe

injury

nick

outrage

pirate

prejudice

rapture

chasm

calve

rip

burst

section

plane of fracture

shear

plane of rupture

be fractured

become fissured

bruise

break up

break-off

sprain

tear

out-break

transgress

vein

failure breaking

wreckage

fish mouthing

break into pieces

crock up

encroach on

go bust

tiar

speech pattern

ecphlysis

break in

break of

ice fracture

reduction of a bone

cross-section

scracth

crushing

decipher

fracture plane

derogate

flying-off

destruction

disconnect

discontinuity

dislocation

disrepair

disruption

disruptive

Translations

fracture

frattura

Bruch

fractura

Knochenbruch

breuk

Fraktur

fissure

fracturer

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈfɹæk.tjə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: fracture

In summary

From Middle English fracture, from Old French fracture, from Latin fractūra (“a breach, fracture, cleft”), from frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg-, whence also English break. See fraction. Doublet of fraktur.