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fracture::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | break |
| Type of | trauma, hurt, injury, harm |
| Has types | open fracture, stress fracture, capillary fracture, closed fracture, comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, compression fracture, depressed fracture, displaced fracture, fatigue fracture, hairline fracture, impacted fracture, incomplete fracture, simple fracture |
it was a nasty fracture.
fracture::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | break, fault, faulting, geological fault, shift |
| Type of | scissure, fissure, crevice, crack, cleft |
| Has types | inclined fault, strike-slip fault |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | discontinue, break off, stop, break |
The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe.
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Has types | refracture |
| Verb group | break |
Examples of fracture
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Creek suffered a stress fracture in his patella Saturday night against Michigan.
From the courier-journal.com
Can't you see the fracture growing with independents and even the Democrat base?
From the freep.com
There is a high mortality rate for patients who have experienced a hip fracture.
From the sciencedaily.com
The first two groups of patients received surgery to help repair their fracture.
From the sciencedaily.com
Kauanui, 24, suffered a skull fracture and died in the hospital four days later.
From the signonsandiego.com
Freshman Terrell Holloway suffered a stress fracture in his left foot last week.
From the stltoday.com
He was riding in a homemade go-cart and got a hairline fracture when it crashed.
From the tennessean.com
The star forward is sidelined indefinitely due to a stress fracture in her back.
From the newsobserver.com
Avery was hurt Friday and has a stress fracture in his left foot, the team said.
From the kentucky.com
- Breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall"
- Violate or abuse; "This writer really fractures the language"
- Fault: (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"
- Interrupt, break, or destroy; "fracture the balance of power"
- Break into pieces; "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"
- The act of cracking something
- A fracture is the (local) separation of an object or material into two, or more, pieces under the action of stress.
- Fracture is a 2004 New Zealand film written and directed by Larry Parr and based on the novel by Maurice Gee. The film is set in Wellington and stars Kate Elliott, Jared Turner and Australian John Noble. ...
- Fracture is a 2007 legal/crime suspense film from both New Line Cinema and Castle Rock Entertainment, directed by Gregory Hoblit and starring Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling. Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins) discovers that his wife has been having an affair. ...
