· breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall"

Synonym(s): break

Hypernym(s): injury, hurt, harm, trauma

· (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"

Synonym(s): fault, faulting, geological_fault, shift, break

Hypernym(s): crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure

· the act of cracking something

Synonym(s): crack, cracking

Hypernym(s): breakage, break, breaking

· violate or abuse; "This writer really fractures the language"

Hypernym(s): pervert, misuse, abuse

· interrupt, break, or destroy; "fracture the balance of power"

Hypernym(s): destroy, destruct

· break into pieces; "The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle"

Hypernym(s): break

· become fractured; "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe"

Hypernym(s): break, break_off, discontinue, stop

· break (a bone); "She broke her clavicle"

· fracture a bone of; "I broke my foot while playing hockey"

Synonym(s): break

Hypernym(s): injure, wound