Definitions for fractures

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fractures frac·ture

Spelling: [frak-cher]

IPA: /ˈfræk tʃər/

Fractures is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 519 anagrams from letters in fractures (acefrrstu).

Definitions for fractures

noun

1. the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
2. the act of breaking; state of being broken.
3. a break, breach, or split.
4. the characteristic manner of breaking:
5. the characteristic appearance of a broken surface, as of a mineral.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause or to suffer a fracture in (a bone, etc.).
2. to break or crack.
3. Slang. to amuse highly or cause to laugh heartily; delight:

verb (used without object)

1. to become fractured; break:

Origin of fractures

1375-1425; late Middle English Middle French Latin frāctūra a breach, cleft, fracture, equivalent to frāct(us) (past participle of frangere to

Examples for fractures

With new-found interest she examined the fracture, and stared at it in wonder.

Joe is comfortable in bed; the fracture turns out not to be a bad one.

And the truth is, I got way more opportunities out of Half Nelson than I did out of fracture.

He was Tasered several times but he was still able to grab a baton from a police officer and fracture her arm.

Loss of empire—and particularly the arrival of former subjects from Asia and Africa—threatened to fracture that identity.

When you have done this the deformity will indicate the location of the fracture.

Master Gryphus was detained in bed by the fever caused by the fracture of his arm.

This pointed out to him that the wire might be sensitive to sound when in a state of fracture.

One never knows where or when or how they will fracture, but they invariably do.

Facebook has—to fracture an old phrase—just closed the barn door after a billion cows already departed the premises.