to fracture
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7.2
- verb
- /ˈfræk.tʃɚ/
:
fracturar
- But you don't have to let it fracture your relationship.
- a fractured society
- a fractured nation
- a fractured country
Number three, I would go with it's fracturing our collective reality.
- Number three, I would go with it's fracturing our collective reality.
- Anyway, that party is fracturing over those social issues.
- And, you know, I, I was probably really fractured by that for a long time.
- There's something that happens in our life that we get somehow fractured.
- But I am leaning, I am propped, I am fractured.
- But what I would say is that the agendas in the culture right now are trying to fracture us as humans.
- Disruptive for me simply means when there is order of some sort that order is fractured, broken.
- But I I really feel we've lost our identity as a country because it's so fractured into multiple different Americas.
Examples
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Leaving felt wrong; it fractured our strength, left holes in it, room for things to go bad.
Fiction book (2000) -
Anyway, that party is fracturing over those social issues.
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I would do that with my with my son and I ended up fracturing our relationship more than I helped.
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But what I would say is that the agendas in the culture right now are trying to fracture us as humans.
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Number three, I would go with it's fracturing our collective reality.
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As we heard a little last week, perhaps there was similarly a fracturing of the religious belief system.
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I can't live with a fractured family, Kate.
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My point is, rather, that feminism's identity is fractured and often fractious.
Academic text (1993) -
The work, with its sacred orientation, fractures the aesthetic beliefs of the programs taught in secular spaces.
Academic text (2015) -
You shouldn't let financial difficulties fracture your family bonds.
Synonyms
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1.0
To change a large bill into smaller bills
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4.0
To break something so it does not work
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2.9
To badly damage or destroy something
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4.6
Cause deep pain to someone's feelings and destroy their hopes
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5.8
To break something into pieces by hitting it hard
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3.0
To separate into pieces, for example a machine or a group
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4.1
To completely destroy something, often hopes or plans
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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6.0
A broken bone that tears through the skin, causing an open wound and a risk of infection
- Specialized
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4.6
A small crack in a bone caused by doing the same movement again and again
- Specialized
1
6.8
A broken bone that is pushed together and becomes shorter, often in the spine
- Specialized
1
7.9
A break in the skull where a piece of bone pushes inward toward the brain
- Specialized
1
4.8
A bend and crack in a child's bone that does not break all the way through
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1
3.5
A broken bone that does not cut the skin or badly damage nearby tissue
- Specialized
A break in a bone that goes all the way through and separates it into two or more pieces
- Specialized
A break in the second neck bone caused by a strong backward force, often after a fall or car accident
How Damaging
Surface Forms
Morphology
fracture = fract + ure
Although analyzable as fract- + -ure historically, 'fract' is not a standalone modern English word, so the relation to the meaning 'break' (especially the metaphorical sense) is not transparent to an average learner.
Etymology
Fracture used in a non-physical way also comes from Latin frangere 'to break'. So to fracture a rule, trust, or relationship is to damage or 'break' it, like making a crack in something that was whole.