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fracture v. violate or abuse; "This writer really fractures the language"
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fracture n. [
break] breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall"
. wn #3
fracture n. [
fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, break] (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"
. wn #4
fracture v. interrupt, break, or destroy; "fracture the balance of power"
. wn #5
fracture n. [
crack, cracking] the act of cracking something
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