Synonyms for fracture

noun

1. The act of breaking

   rupture, breakage, disjunction, cleaving, cleavage, disseverment, riving, displacement, dislocation, severing, separating, dismemberment.

2. The result of being broken

   break, wound, cleft, mutilation, crack, shattering, breach, split, rupture, fragmentation, fissure, fault; see also sense 1; hole 1.

3. A break in the skeletal system

   broken bone, broken limb, simple fracture, closed fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, ruptured cartilage; see also senses 1 and 2.

verb