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fracture

English

🔊 the act of cracking something
🔊 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
“they built it right over a geological fault”
🔊 fracture a bone of
“I broke my foot while playing hockey”
🔊 break (a bone)
“She broke her clavicle”
🔊 become fractured
“The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe”
🔊 violate or abuse
“This writer really fractures the language”
🔊 break into pieces
“The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle”
🔊 interrupt, break, or destroy
“fracture the balance of power”