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fracture
  • n  breaking of hard tissue such as bone
    it was a nasty fracture
  • n  (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
  • n  the act of cracking something
  • v  violate or abuse
    This writer really fractures the language
  • v  interrupt, break, or destroy
    fracture the balance of power
  • v  break into pieces
    The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle
  • v  become fractured
    The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe
  • v  break (a bone)
  • v  fracture a bone of
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fradicin
  • n  an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used (as a sulphate under the trade name Neobiotic) as an intestinal antiseptic in surgery
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