- 1[intransitive, transitive] to break or crack; to make something break or crack His leg fractured in two places. fracture something She fell and fractured her skull. a fractured pipeline
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- 2[intransitive, transitive] (formal) (of a society, an organization, etc.) to split into several parts so that it no longer functions or exists; to split a society or an organization, etc. in this way Many people predicted that the party would fracture and split. fracture something (into something) The company fractured into several smaller groups.
fracture
verbNAmE//ˈfræktʃər//
breakVerb Forms present simple I / you / we / they fracture he / she / it fractures
past simple fractured
-ing form fracturing
adjective [usually before noun] He suffered a badly fractured arm. (figurative) They spoke a sort of fractured German.See fracture in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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