breakbone
- noun
- /ˈbreɪkˌboʊn/
- Archaic
:
fractura severa
- The athlete suffered a breakbone during the match and had to leave the field immediately.
Examples
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Doctors treated the breakbone with surgery to ensure proper healing.
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After the accident, his breakbone required months of physical therapy.
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He suffered a breakbone during the football match.
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The doctor diagnosed her with a breakbone after the accident.
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The athlete suffered a breakbone during the match, which ended his season prematurely.
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Doctors performed surgery on his breakbone to prevent complications and ensure proper healing.
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Following the accident, her breakbone required extensive rehabilitation to regain full mobility.
Synonyms
364
4.1
A break in something hard like a bone or rock
66
1.0
A sudden crack in a hard thing such as a bone
6
6.0
A broken bone that tears through the skin, causing an open wound and a risk of infection
3
5.4
A broken bone that sticks out through a cut in the skin
1
6.8
A broken bone that is pushed together and becomes shorter, often in the spine
1
7.9
A break in the skull where a piece of bone pushes inward toward the brain
1
8.1
A bone that is broken into several pieces
1
7.3
A broken bone where one end is pushed into the other
1
4.1
A broken bone that does not break the skin
A broken bone with two ends that are apart and not in line
A break in a bone that goes all the way through and separates it into two or more pieces
Antonyms
Compounds
- Archaic
A tropical disease spread by mosquitoes that causes high fever, rash and very bad joint and muscle pain
How Severe
- Specialized
6
6.0
- Archaic
364
4.1
- Specialized
1
3.5
9
5.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Breakbone comes from the parts break ('to break') and bone ('bone'), and it simply means a very bad bone break, so a 'breakbone' is a severe fracture where one or more bones are badly broken.