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fractured

/frak-cher/US // ˈfræk tʃər //UK // (ˈfræktʃə) //

碎裂的,碎裂,断裂的,断裂

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    • : the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition.Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
    • : the act of breaking; state of being broken.
    • : a break, breach, or split.
    • : the characteristic manner of breaking: a material of unpredictable fracture.
    • : the characteristic appearance of a broken surface, as of a mineral.
v.有主动词 verb
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    frac·tured, frac·tur·ing.

    • : to cause or to suffer a fracture in.
    • : to break or crack.
    • : Slang. to amuse highly or cause to laugh heartily; delight: The new comic really fractured the audience.
v.无主动词 verb
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    frac·tured, frac·tur·ing.

    • : to become fractured; break: a mineral that does not fracture easily.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inbroken
as inlaugh
as inshatter
as insmash
as inbreak
Antonyms
as inburst
Antonyms
as inrecreate
as inrive

Examples

  • “I’ve seen more tooth fractures in the last six weeks than in the previous six years,” Tammy Chen, a dentist in Manhattan, wrote in the New York Times in September.

  • ESPN’s Ed Werder reports that Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints suffered “multiple rib fractures on both sides of his chest and a collapsed lung on the right side.”

  • According to a person with knowledge of the situation, Allen suffered a dislocated ankle and small fracture, and he will require season-ending surgery.

  • Edison Flores, United’s major signing last winter, missed nine games this fall with a facial fracture.

  • Their two most important offensive players, quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo and tight end George Kittle, are sidelined with injuries, Garoppolo with an ankle injury and Kittle with a foot fracture.

  • Public sector unions have also fractured the labor movement itself.

  • What it does have is a fractured relationship between a mother and a son.

  • He fell 40 feet and fractured his skull, hip, and nose, and lay there motionless.

  • Patterson would later learn that this one also had a fractured wing.

  • The rescued male was in better condition and his fractured wing began to heal without surgery.

  • The pictures thus hermetically sealed are indestructible so long as the glass is not fractured.

  • He fractured his skull, broke his arm, and cut off one of his fingers; but Harrington recovered from these and other injuries.

  • Mason was found on the side of the hill, seated with great composure, but unable to walk from a fractured leg.

  • The magma drove upward, melting its way through the fractured rock of the channels under the western side of the island.

  • "The shock threw him against the pilot-house wall and fractured his skull—he died in an hour," he said.