fracture synonyms

fracture

n.

  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.

fracture

v.

break, crack, split, shatter; see break 1. See syn. study at break.

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