Fracture Synonyms

frăkchər
To crack or split into two or more fragments by means of or as a result of force, a blow, or strain
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. break
  2. rift
  3. rive
  4. shatter
  5. shiver
  6. smash
  7. splinter
  8. sunder
The act of breaking
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. rupture
  2. dislocation
  3. breakage
  4. disjunction
  5. cleaving
  6. cleavage
  7. disseverment
  8. riving
  9. displacement
  10. crack
  11. severing
  12. separating
  13. dismemberment
  14. cracking
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To undergo partial breaking
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. break
  2. crack
  3. split
  4. fissure
  5. rupture
  6. shatter
A break in the skeletal system
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. broken bone
  2. broken limb
  3. simple fracture
  4. closed fracture
  5. compound fracture
  6. greenstick-fracture
  7. ruptured cartilage
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To cause to break:
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. break

Words Related to Fracture

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. hole
  2. help
  3. calcaneal
  4. osteolysis
  5. deformity
  6. osteoporosis-related
  7. metaphyseal
  8. supracondylar
  9. subluxation
  10. fibular
  11. vertebral
  12. fractures
  13. avulsion
  14. sesamoid

Fracture Sentence Examples

  • It is only a fracture, but she's going to have to stay off it for six weeks.

  • The fracture is conchoidal, and the material is brittle.

  • On fracture these spherical growths are found to be radiated in structure.

  • The Red Sea is formed by a line of fracture, probably dating from Pliocene times, crossing the centre of a dome of Archean rocks, on both flanks of which, in Egypt and Arabia., rest Secondary and Tertiary deposits.

  • In consequence of this composite formation, amethyst is apt to break with a rippled fracture, or to show "thumb markings," and the intersection of two sets of curved ripples may produce on the fractured surface a pattern something like that of "engine turning."

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