fracture

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1. fracture - Noun

2. fracture - Verb

Meaning

The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.

The breaking of a bone.

The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.

To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.

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I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws. Emil Cioran

An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture. Jeff VanderMeer

The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister. Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Rose Tyler: Can't you come through properly? The Doctor: Then the whole thing would fracture. The two universes would collapse. Rose Tyler: So? Russell T Davies

You let the brush take over and in a way follow its own head, and in the brush doing what it's doing, it will stumble on what one couldn't by oneself... It's essential to fracture influences in the same way that free association in psychoanalysis helps to fracture one's social self-deceptions. Robert Motherwell

He who is born to misfortunate stumbles as he goes, and though he fall on his back will fracture his nose. German Proverb

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