Both Uses
fracture
in
I Am the Cheese
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- "God," I say and the word fills the emptiness left by the car, fractures the silence of the country air.†
Chpt 18 *
- I feel like dashing across the street to attack him, knock him down, feel the fracture of bone as my fist hits his jaw.†
Chpt 27
Definitions:
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(1)
(fracture) a crack or break, or to cause one, especially in something hard -- such as a bone
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Fracture can also be used metaphorically as in "fracture the balance of power."