the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture , complete fracture , compound fracture , greenstick fracture , simple fracture .

the act of breaking; state of being broken.

a break, breach, or split.

the characteristic manner of breaking

a material of unpredictable fracture.

the characteristic appearance of a broken surface, as of a mineral.

to cause or to suffer a fracture in (a bone, etc.).

to break or crack.

Slang . to amuse highly or cause to laugh heartily; delight

The new comic really fractured the audience.

to become fractured; break

a mineral that does not fracture easily.

noun

breach , cleavage , cleft , crack , discontinuity , disjunction , displacement , fissure , fragmentation , gap , mutilation , opening , rent , rift , schism , severance , splinter , split , wound , break , breaking , fault , flaw , rend , rupture , separation

verb

rift , rive , shatter , shiver , smash , splinter , sunder , fissure , rupture , split