Both Uses of
fracture
in
Unbroken - adapted for young adults
- He beat POWs every day, fracturing their windpipes, rupturing their eardrums, shattering their teeth, tearing one man's ear half off, tying another to a tree for days.†
p. 174.1 *
- Garrett was shot down, incurring a gaping ankle fracture.†
p. 157.6
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) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Fracture can also be used metaphorically as in "fracture the balance of power."