fracture

Meanings

• breaking of hard tissue such as bone
  • "it was a nasty fracture"
• (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
• the act of cracking something
• violate or abuse
  • "This writer really fractures the language"
• interrupt, break, or destroy
  • "fracture the balance of power"
• break into pieces
  • "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"
• become fractured
  • "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe"
• break (a bone)
• fracture a bone of

Synonyms

break, crack, cracking, fault, faulting, geological fault, shift