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Definition

a crack (or break) of a hard object — such as bone or rock; or the act of cracking or breaking

Fracture can also be used metaphorically as in "fracture the balance of power."

fractured the shinbone

fractured = broke

fracture in the earth's crust
The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle
it was a nasty fracture
A simple fracture.
John Knowles -- A Separate Peace

fracture = crack (in the bone)

Her leg had been so swollen and painful all along that the doctor had not even tried to set the fractures,
John Hersey -- Hiroshima

fractures = breaks

You haven't any fracture.
Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms

fracture = crack (in the bone)

I was coated in ice, too, that fractured and crackled as I moved.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Chains
My shoulder was dislocated, but I only fractured two ribs.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- The Impossible Knife of Memory
'Fracture wound, simple projectile, type O.' It doesn't say anything about amputation, does it?
Walter Dean Myers -- Fallen Angels
Byrnes was in serious condition at Sacred Heart with multiple fractures, his face so badly beaten as to be unrecognizable.
Chris Crutcher -- Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
It is a hoop to be fractured by a tiny jar.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
Smaller fractures appeared, webbing her skin.
Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid
The stone had actually cracked in two, a thin fracture running its entire length, but the trembling had stopped completely.
Scott Westerfeld -- The Secret Hour
I imagine the atmosphere got a little tense when Carlisle had to rebreak the fractures -
Stephenie Meyer -- Eclipse
He wants to fracture the group before July.
Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
Sometimes we're fractured by the choices we make; sometimes we're shattered by things we would never have chosen.
Bryan Stevenson -- Just Mercy
A reeling smear of words, twitching gestures, fractured lights, features, a flickering gauntlet of tumult and dismay.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
Rumbles of thunder and the sound of rock fracturing combined to make a horrible chorus as the ground beneath Thomas continued to shake.
James Dashner -- The Death Cure
Then the sunlight was fractured by thin trunks of tilting trees.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things

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