Fracture
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English
Noun
Fracture (plural Fractures)- the act of breaking, or something that has broken, especially that in bone or cartilage
- (geology) a fault or crack in a rock
Verb
Fracture (third-person singular simple present fractures, present participle fracturing, simple past and past participle fractured)
- to break, or cause something to break
Verbs for Fracture
cast—; compound—; depress—; examine—; expose—; fasten—; incur—; inflict—; prevent—; produce—; recognize—; reconcile—; reduce—; splice—; splint—; support—; x-ray—; —divides; —heals; — mends; — shocks; —splits; —splinters;— unites.
Synonyms for Fracture
rupture, rift, break, breach, crack, rent, split.
Antonyms for Fracture
Derived terms
- compound fracture
- fracture mechanics
- greenstick fracture
- hairline fracture
- incomplete fracture
- Jones fracture
- simple fracture
- Smith's fracture
- stress fracture
- tracheal fracture
- vowel fracture
Related terms
Thesaurus
abrade, abrasion, abysm, abyss, amuse, arroyo, bark, beguile, blemish, bloody, box canyon, breach, break, break open, break up, breakage, breaking, burn, burst, bust, canyon, cavity, chafe, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chip, claw, cleavage, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, come apart, come unstuck, concussion, convulse, coulee, couloir, crack, crackle, cranny, craze, crevasse, crevice, cut, cut apart, cwm, defile, delight, dell, dike, disintegrate, ditch, divert, division, donga, draw, enliven, entertain, excavation, exfoliate, exhilarate, fall to pieces, fault, fissure, flash burn, flaw, flume, fracture one, fray, frazzle, fret, furrow, gall, gap, gape, gash, give away, give way, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hole, hurt, incise, incision, injure, injury, joint, kill, kloof, knock dead, lacerate, laceration, leak, lesion, loosen up, maim, make mincemeat of, maul, moat, mortal wound, mutilate, mutilation, notch, nullah, open, opening, pass, passage, pierce, puncture, raise a laugh, raise a smile, ravine, recreate, refresh, regale, relax, rend, rent, rift, rime, rip, rive, run, rupture, savage, scald, scale, schism, scissure, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, seam, second-degree burn, separate, separation, skin, slash, slay, slice, slit, slot, snap, solace, sore, splinter, split, sprain, spring a leak, stab, stab wound, start, stick, strain, tear, third-degree burn, tickle, titillate, trauma, traumatize, trench, valley, void, wadi, wound, wounds immedicable, wow, wrench
Etymology
< Old French < Latin fractura (“a breach, fracture, cleft”) < frangere (“to break”), past participle fractus, from Proto-Indo-European *bhreg-, from whence also English break. See fraction.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈfɹæk.tʃɘ/
Translations
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External links
- Fracture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Fracture in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
French
Pronunciation
Noun
Fracture f. (plural Fractures)
Latin
Participle
fractūre
- vocative masculine singular of fractūrus
Spanish
Verb
Fracture (infinitive fracturar)
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of fracturar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of fracturar.
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- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- French nouns
- French feminine nouns
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- Latin participles
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- Spanish forms of verbs ending in -ar
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