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Definition of fractured adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

fractured

adjective
 
/ˈfræktʃəd/
 
/ˈfræktʃərd/
[usually before noun]
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  1. broken or cracked (= damaged but not completely broken)
    • He suffered a badly fractured arm.
    • A gas escape from a fractured pipe was the likely cause of the explosion.
  2. (formal) (of a society, an organization, etc.) split into several parts so that it no longer functions or exists
    • a fractured, disintegrating country
  3. (of a language that is not your own) spoken slowly and with a lot of mistakes synonym broken (6)
    • They spoke a sort of fractured German.
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