fracture

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. break, split, crack, cleft. See disjunction, brittleness.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [The act of breaking]

Syn. rupture, breakage, disjunction, cleaving, cleavage, disseverment, riving, displacement, dislocation, severing, separating, dismemberment.

2. [The result of being broken]

Syn. break, wound, cleft, mutilation, crack, shattering, breach, split, rupture, fragmentation, fissure, fault; see also sense 1; hole 1 .

3. [A break in the skeletal system]

Syn. broken bone, broken limb, simple fracture, closed fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, ruptured cartilage; see also senses 1 and 2.

v.

Syn. break, crack, split, shatter; see break 1 .

See Synonym Study at break .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus)

I

n.

crack, cleft, rent, split, fissure, rupture, breach, cleavage, slit, gash, chasm, cut.

II

v.

crack, split, break, shatter, rupture, cut, breach, rend, cleave.

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb 1. To crack or split into two or more fragments by means of or as a result of force, a blow, or strain: break, rift, rive, shatter, shiver2, smash, splinter, sunder. See HELP. 2. To undergo partial breaking: crack, fissure, rupture, split. See HELP.