fracture [frak-cher] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
fracture [frak-cher]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: break, rupture
Synonyms: breach, cleavage, cleft, crack, discontinuity, disjunction, displacement, fissure, fragmentation, gap, mutilation, opening, rent, rift, schism, severance, splinter, split, wound
Main Entry: breach
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: change from friendly to unfriendly relationship
Synonyms: alienation, break, difference, disaffection, disagreement, discord, disharmony, dissension, disunity, division, estrangement, falling-out, fissure, fracture, parting of the ways, quarrel, rent, rift, rupture, schism, secession, separation, severance, split, strife, variance, withdrawal
Main Entry: break
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: fissure, opening
Synonyms: breach, cleft, crack, discontinuity, disjunction, division, fracture, gap, gash, hole, rent, rift, rupture, schism, split, tear
Antonyms: association, attachment, binding, combination, fastening, juncture
Example Sentences
  • Once you lose your footing it is easy to fall and break your back, your tongue, your head or fracture your bones.
  • Hip fracture surgery is done to repair a break in the upper part of the thigh bone.
  • Their society might fracture if there's religious pluralism.
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Main Entry: break
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: destroy; make whole into pieces
Synonyms: annihilate, batter, burst, bust, bust up, crack, crash, crush, damage, demolish, disintegrate, divide, eradicate, finish off, fracture, fragment, make hash of, make mincemeat of, part, pull to pieces, rend, separate, sever, shatter, shiver, smash, snap, splinter, split, tear, torpedo, total, trash*
Antonyms: attach, fasten, fix, join, mend, put together, secure
Main Entry: burst
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: blow up, break out
Synonyms: barge, blow, break, crack, detonate, discharge, disintegrate, erupt, explode, fly open, fracture, fragment, gush forth, perforate, pierce, pop, prick, puncture, rend asunder, run, rupture, rush, shatter, shiver, splinter, split, spout, tear apart
Main Entry: bust
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: physically break
Synonyms: burst, fold, fracture, rupture
Antonyms: fix, mend
Main Entry: cleavage
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: gap
Synonyms: break, chasm, cleft, discontinuity, divide, division, fracture, hole, rift, schism, separation, severance, split, valley
Main Entry: cleft
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: break, gap
Synonyms: aperture, arroyo, breach, canyon, chasm, chink, cleavage, clough, clove, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, fissure, fracture, gorge, gulch, opening, ravine, rent, rift, rima, rimation, rime, schism, slit
Antonyms: closing, closure, solid
Main Entry: crack
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: break, crevice
Synonyms: breach, chink, chip, cleft, cranny, crevasse, cut, discontinuity, division, fissure, fracture, gap, hole, interstice, interval, rent, rift, rima, rimation, rime, split
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