Synonyms for fracture
ˈfræk tʃərfrac·ture

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1. fracture

   To break is to divide sharply, with severance of particles, as by a blow or strain. To burst is to break by pressure from within, as a bombshell, but it is used also for the result of violent force otherwise exerted; as, to burst in a door, where the door yields as if to an explosion. To crush is to break by pressure from without, as an egg-shell. To crack is to break without complete severance of parts; a cracked cup or mirror may still hold together. Fracture has a somewhat similar sense. In a fractured limb, the ends of the broken bone may be separated, tho both portions are still retained within the common muscular tissue. A shattered object is broken suddenly and in numerous directions; as, a vase is shattered by a blow, a building by an earthquake. A shivered glass is broken into numerous minute, needle-like fragments. To smash is to break thoroughly to pieces with a crashing sound by some sudden act of violence; a watch once smashed will scarcely be worth repair. To split is to cause wood to crack or part in the way of the grain, and is applied to any other case where a natural tendency to separation is enforced by an external cause; as, to split a convention or a party. To demolish is to beat down, as a mound, building, fortress, etc.; to destroy is to put by any process beyond restoration physically, mentally, or morally; to destroy an army is so to shatter and scatter it that it can not be rallied or reassembled as a fighting force. Compare REND.

   Synonyms:
   bankrupt, break, burst, cashier, crack, crush, demolish, destroy, rend, rive, rupture, sever, shatter, shiver, smash, split, sunder, transgress

   Antonyms:
   attach, bind, fasten, join, mend, secure, solder, unite, weld

   Preposition:
   Break to pieces, or in pieces, into several pieces (when the object is thought of as divided rather than shattered); break with a friend; from or away from a suppliant; break into a house; out of prison; break across one's knee; break through a hedge; break in upon one's retirement; break over the rules; break on or upon the shore, against the rocks.

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1. fracture, breaknoun

   breaking of hard tissue such as bone

   "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall"

   Synonyms:
   recess, good luck, rift, fault, cracking, prison-breaking, gaolbreak, suspension, break of serve, happy chance, respite, geological fault, crack, faulting, interruption, shift, break, time out, severance, pause, open frame, breach, disruption, jailbreak, gap, falling out, prisonbreak, breaking, breakage, rupture, intermission, breakout

2. fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, breaknoun

   (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"

   Synonyms:
   prison-breaking, suspension, gap, jailbreak, respite, sack, happy chance, crack, interruption, chemise, duty period, severance, rift, prisonbreak, transmutation, recess, breakout, displacement, faulting, defect, switch, geological fault, teddy, shifting, falling out, break, intermission, good luck, breaking, shimmy, open frame, gaolbreak, mistake, slip, disruption, breach, breakage, flaw, shift key, demerit, fault, pause, shift, time out, switching, work shift, rupture, break of serve, cracking, transformation, error

3. fracture, crack, crackingverb

   the act of cracking something

   Synonyms:
   go, fault, cracking, pass, fling, sally, crack, fissure, geological fault, wisecrack, faulting, quip, shift, break, tornado, cleft, offer, snap, crevice, chap, scissure, cranny, gap, crack cocaine, whirl, shot

4. fractureverb

   violate or abuse

   "This writer really fractures the language"

   Synonyms:
   break

5. fractureverb

   interrupt, break, or destroy

   "fracture the balance of power"

   Synonyms:
   break

6. fractureverb

   break into pieces

   "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"

   Synonyms:
   break

7. fractureverb

   become fractured

   "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe"

   Synonyms:
   break

8. fractureverb

   break (a bone)

   "She broke her clavicle"

   Synonyms:
   break

9. fracture, breakverb

   fracture a bone of

   "I broke my foot while playing hockey"

   Synonyms:
   demote, kick downstairs, cave in, collapse, let on, break-dance, split up, interrupt, offend, reveal, die, disclose, soften, expose, pause, fail, smash, crack, wear out, weaken, get around, go bad, break up, recrudesce, transgress, break away, split, unwrap, come apart, bankrupt, ruin, dampen, give away, get out, break off, separate, fall apart, break out, fall in, give out, go, founder, break in, bust, break dance, stop, intermit, divulge, breach, check, snap off, damp, violate, erupt, give, bring out, break down, discontinue, give way, conk out, better, part, relegate, burst, break, bump, infract, go against, discover, develop, wear, let out

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1. fracturenoun

   Synonyms:
   breaking, rupture

2. fracturenoun

   Synonyms:
   break, crack, breach, cleft, fissure, rift, flaw, rent, opening

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1. fracturenoun

   Synonyms:
   rupture, breach, breaking

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1. List of paraphrases for "fracture":

   divide, fractures, fractured, fracturing, frac-out, rupture, broken, rift, breakdown, gap, breakup, break

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1. Rajveer Purohit:

   You can imagine a balloon that gets filled up with water, and then you have this tense sheath that's surrounding the balloon, and that's what gives you the stiffness with an erection. And the fracture is a rupture of the balloon and the sheath surrounding the balloon, the vast majority of cases are one-sided, or unilateral, corporal ruptures. But sometimes Rajveer Purohit do have someone who's had a bilateral, or two-sided, corporal fracture involving the urethra.

2. Harold Tobin:

   Blanco Fracture zone quakes are strike-slip( lateral motions of the crustal blocks on either side, rather than up-down displacement), so it is very unlikely for them to pose a tsunami threat, even if a bigger quake happened, like a magnitude 7.0 for example.

3. Peter Gersten:

   We're seeing a fracture in their morale, we're seeing their inability to pay, we're seeing the inability to fight, we're watching them try to leave Daesh in every single way.

4. John Leddy:

   Mild traumatic brain injury is a category of bran injury that includes concussion, with concussion being at the mildest end of that spectrum. So sports concussion, for example, would be a subset of mild traumatic brain injury, all of the patients in this study received a CT scan to evaluate for brain bleeding or skull fracture and may have had a neurological deficit when they came to the emergency room. While that type of injury can be classified as' mild,' it's a lot more severe than a sport-related concussion typically would be.

5. Dudley Brown:

   Supporting red flag would completely fracture the base.