fracturen.

Brit.

/ˈfraktʃə/, U.S.

/ˈfræktʃər/

Forms: Also 1500s fractour.

Etymology: < French fracture, < Latin fractūra, < fract- participial stem of frangĕre to break.

1. The action of breaking or fact of being broken; breakage; spec. in Surgery (the earliest use), the breaking of a bone, cartilage, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [noun] > fractures

brucheOE

fissurec1400

fracture?1541

compound fracture1543

fraction1587

attrition1634

effracture1634

flap-fracture1658

complicated fracture1745

abduction1753

star fracture1840

stress fracture1911

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun]

breachOE

breakingc975

brusure1382

breaka1400

crasure1413

chininga1420

bursting1487

bruisinga1500

fraction?a1560

chinking1565

springingc1595

infraction1623

disruption1646

abruption1654

diruption1656

chapping1669

chopping1669

fracturea1676

rumple1746

breakage1775

disrupture1785

fracturing1830

disruptment1834

snapping1891

fractionation1926

?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Bj, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Ye must begyn the lygature at the vlcerate party, in ledynge it towarde the hole partye, as Hyppocrates wylleth in the fractour of bones.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 38 Without any great fracture of the more stable and fixed parts of Nature.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 237 The Shock of the Air which the Fracture in the Clouds made.

1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 2) iv. 33 Time is requisite for producing the fracture of the ice.

1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) II. xix. 37 Fracture of the sterno-costal cartilages is a rare accident.

figurative.1842 Ld. Cockburn Jrnl. 4 Apr. (1874) I. ix. 315 Preparations have begun to be made for..fracture of the Church.

a. The result of breaking; a crack, division, split; †a broken part, a splinter.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > a crack or breach

chinec888

bruche?a1300

crevice1382

scar1390

scorec1400

rimea1425

riftc1425

riving1440

creekc1480

brack1524

rive1527

bruise1530

crack1530

chink1545

chap1553

riff1577

chop1578

chinker1581

coane1584

fraction1587

cranice1603

slifter1607

fracture1641

shake1651

snap1891

the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment

shreddingc950

brucheOE

shredc1000

brokec1160

truncheonc1330

scartha1340

screedc1350

bruisinga1382

morsel1381

shedc1400

stumpc1400

rag?a1425

brokalyc1440

brokeling1490

mammocka1529

brokelette1538

sheavec1558

shard1561

fragment1583

segment1586

brack1587

parcel1596

flaw1607

fraction1609

fracture1641

pash1651

frustillation1653

hoof1655

arrachement1656

jaga1658

shattering1658

discerption1685

scar1698

twitter1715

frust1765

smithereens1841

chitling1843

1641 S. Marshall et al. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. §18 (1653) 71 Their Fractures were so many, they knew not which Religion to chuse if they should turne Christians.

1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Dying iv. §9. 231 Reconcile the fractures of his family.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. v. 16 Besides, the losse of his Launce, though it stuck emblematically on his sides, yet the fractures went to his heart.

1798 W. Clubbe Omnium 33 He got off his box, and went to splicing the fractures [of the harness].

1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles v. vi. 180 O'er chasms he pass'd, where fractures wide Craved wary eye and ample stride.

1831 H. T. De la Beche Geol. Man. i. 28 No appearances of fracture are visible in the hills.

1876 J. S. Brewer Eng. Stud. (1881) ii. 78 They admitted no such fracture in the chain of our political existence.

b. Surgery. For comminuted, compound, simple fracture, see those words.

ΚΠ

1525 tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Vertuous Handy Warke Surg. G iiij If the fracture be lytell it shall be cured like y^e contusyon aforesayd.

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 306/2 Whether it be a wounde or a Fracture.

1633 G. Herbert Repentance in Temple vi Fractures well cur'd make us more strong.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 161 Fractures of the Nose, Cheek-bones..fasten again in twenty or twenty-four days.

1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 606 The art of reducing fractures.

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 443/1 In one [bone] the fracture had not united.

1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 11 The fracture was a simple one.

figurative.1859 J. G. Holland Gold Foil vi. 98 Old fractures of character that refuse to unite.

3. The characteristic appearance of the fresh surface in a mineral, when broken irregularly by the blow of a hammer. More fully, surface of fracture.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > minerals > mineral structure or appearance > [noun] > cleavage or fracture > fracture surface

fracture1794

fracture-surface1816

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. xxix. 453 Sparkling in its fracture like sugar.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 2 Pig iron..the fracture of which is of a dark colour.

1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. i. iii. 47 The rock at once splits with a clean fracture.

1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xii. 101 The two surfaces of fracture were absolutely black.

1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius iii. 65 It breaks with a resinous fracture.

†4. = fraction n. 5. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > fraction > [noun]

fractionc1400

broken number1552

fracturea1690

fragmenta1690

mite1702

a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 230 Forasmuch as alwayes an whole Year..is not the subject of the Question..but sometimes Parts or Fractures of the whole are useful.

5. Phonetics. The euphonic substitution of a diphthong for a simple vowel, owing to the influence of a following consonant (in Old English h, l, r); the diphthong so produced.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [noun] > fracture

breaking1871

fracture1891

1891 A. L. Mayhew Synopsis Old Eng. Phonol. §81 Short eo corresponds to Germ. e, as the result of fracture before final h.

1891 A. L. Mayhew Synopsis Old Eng. Phonol. §84 eo = io the fracture of Germ. i before h + cons.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

fracture-bed n.

ΚΠ

1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 102/1 Fracture Beds.

fracture-bedstead n.

ΚΠ

1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 102/2 Fracture Bedstead.

fracture-box n. a combination of splints used to encase a broken limb.

ΚΠ

1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 685 The dislocation was easily reduced under ether..and the limb was put up in a fracture-box.

b. Of fracture in the earth's crust:

fracture-line n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > fault > line

vees1672

fracture-line1925

1925 J. Joly Surface-hist. Earth viii. 140 The long rift valley of South Australia, mainly meridional in direction, as well as meridionally-directed fracture-lines along the eastern side of that continent.

fracture-system n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > fault > system

virgation1897

fracture-system1922

1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 214/2 Rectilinear and regularly intersecting fracture-systems.

fracture-zone n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > [noun] > type of zone

greenstone belt1872

sheeted zone1903

shatter belt1910

fault zone1931

slide area1959

fracture-zone1965

subduction zone1970

1965 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. (rev. ed.) xxvi. 939 By far the most astonishing structures of the East Pacific Rise are the E–W fracture zones which have sliced the Rise into long crustal slabs.

C2.

fracture-surface n. = sense 3).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > minerals > mineral structure or appearance > [noun] > cleavage or fracture > fracture surface

fracture1794

fracture-surface1816

1816 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals (ed. 2) 130 The fracture-surfaces or planes thus exposed.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

fracturev.

Brit.

/ˈfraktʃə/, U.S.

/ˈfræktʃər/

Etymology: < fracture n.

a. transitive. To cause a fracture in, esp. a bone, etc.; to break the continuity of; to crack.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)]

breaka1000

forbreakc1000

shenec1000

burstc1250

disquattec1380

brasta1400

stonyc1440

to strike up1467

dirupt1548

unframe1548

disrump1581

split1597

crack1608

snap1679

fracture1767

disrupt1817

snop1849

1612–1794 see the ppl. adj. ]

1767 M. Cutler Jrnl. 23 Sept. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 134 I fell upon a large round timber and fractured two ribs.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 132 Before our secondary strata were formed, those of older date..were fractured and contorted.

1858 D. Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Philos.: Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, & Heat (new ed.) 7 A liability of bursting or fracturing some parts of the machine might arise.

1859 W. Collins Queen of Hearts I. 42 She would..fracture her skull with the pony.

b. To impress, excite, amuse greatly. U.S. slang.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > affect with pleasurable excitement [verb (transitive)] > give thrill of pleasurable excitement to

dirl1513

slay1863

razzle-dazzle1886

to turn on1903

panic1920

wow1924

kill1938

to knock out1942

fracture1946

gas1947

stoke1963

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > cause laughter [verb (transitive)] > convulse with laughter

shake?1606

convulse1751

to break up1895

slay1927

kill1938

fracture1946

1946 H. P. M. Brown Sound of Hunting ii. 116 This guy Muller fractures me.

1951 M. Shulman Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1953) 41 We're a riot, hey. We play all kinds of funny stuff. We fracture the people.

1955 L. Feather Encycl. Jazz (1956) x. 346 Fracture, impress, excite, amuse.

1966 Crescendo Aug. 20/2 I know he fractured you the same as he did me.

1970 H. E. Roberts Third Ear 7/1 Fracture v., to make one laugh.

2. intransitive for reflexive. To suffer fracture; to break.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)]

burstc1000

breakc1175

rendc1275

cracka1400

perbreak?a1400

crazec1430

twinc1450

frush1489

to fall apart1761

fracture1885

1885 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1884 279 The implements..are of sandstone..[or] quartzite, neither of which fractures by Ėtonnement.

3. Phonetics. (transitive) To subject to fracture.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [verb (transitive)] > fracture

break1845

fracture1889

1889 A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. V. v. 496 The peculiar manner of fracturing the vowels in the A-, A′, Æ, E-, EA′, O′ words by prefixing an accented (ee) or (ii) and reducing the vowel itself to indistinct (ɐ).

Derivatives

ˈfractured adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective] > broken

broken1383

bursted1527

pipped1540

fract1547

fracted1547

cracked1562

infract1593

fractured1617

broke1647

confragosea1684

staved1699

burst1812

bashed1830

snapped1869

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 161 Nothing cureth a fractured boane so much as rest.

a1763 W. Shenstone Oeconomy iii, in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 303 Behold his chair, whose fractur'd seat infirm An aged cushion hides.

1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 104 That mass of fractured and sinking country.

1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) xxx. 350 The part which originally had a north pole acquires a south pole at the fractured end.

ˈfracturing n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun]

breachOE

breakingc975

brusure1382

breaka1400

crasure1413

chininga1420

bursting1487

bruisinga1500

fraction?a1560

chinking1565

springingc1595

infraction1623

disruption1646

abruption1654

diruption1656

chapping1669

chopping1669

fracturea1676

rumple1746

breakage1775

disrupture1785

fracturing1830

disruptment1834

snapping1891

fractionation1926

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective]

ruptive?a1425

chinking1578

breaking1597

chapping1610

obrumpent1656

disrumpent1657

snapping1823

fracturing1830

disrupting1849

disruptic1889

1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 285 The sudden application of convulsive and fracturing efforts.

1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field 221 Much fracturing of the crust must have resulted.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fracture
释义	fracturen. Brit. /ˈfraktʃə/, U.S. /ˈfræktʃər/ Forms: Also 1500s fractour. Etymology: < French fracture, < Latin fractūra, < fract- participial stem of frangĕre to break. 1. The action of breaking or fact of being broken; breakage; spec. in Surgery (the earliest use), the breaking of a bone, cartilage, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of bones > [noun] > fractures brucheOE fissurec1400 fracture?1541 compound fracture1543 fraction1587 attrition1634 effracture1634 flap-fracture1658 complicated fracture1745 abduction1753 star fracture1840 stress fracture1911 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] breachOE breakingc975 brusure1382 breaka1400 crasure1413 chininga1420 bursting1487 bruisinga1500 fraction?a1560 chinking1565 springingc1595 infraction1623 disruption1646 abruption1654 diruption1656 chapping1669 chopping1669 fracturea1676 rumple1746 breakage1775 disrupture1785 fracturing1830 disruptment1834 snapping1891 fractionation1926 ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Bj, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens Ye must begyn the lygature at the vlcerate party, in ledynge it towarde the hole partye, as Hyppocrates wylleth in the fractour of bones. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. i. 38 Without any great fracture of the more stable and fixed parts of Nature. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 237 The Shock of the Air which the Fracture in the Clouds made. 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 2) iv. 33 Time is requisite for producing the fracture of the ice. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) II. xix. 37 Fracture of the sterno-costal cartilages is a rare accident. figurative.1842 Ld. Cockburn Jrnl. 4 Apr. (1874) I. ix. 315 Preparations have begun to be made for..fracture of the Church. 2. a. The result of breaking; a crack, division, split; †a broken part, a splinter. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > a crack or breach chinec888 bruche?a1300 crevice1382 scar1390 scorec1400 rimea1425 riftc1425 riving1440 creekc1480 brack1524 rive1527 bruise1530 crack1530 chink1545 chap1553 riff1577 chop1578 chinker1581 coane1584 fraction1587 cranice1603 slifter1607 fracture1641 shake1651 snap1891 the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment shreddingc950 brucheOE shredc1000 brokec1160 truncheonc1330 scartha1340 screedc1350 bruisinga1382 morsel1381 shedc1400 stumpc1400 rag?a1425 brokalyc1440 brokeling1490 mammocka1529 brokelette1538 sheavec1558 shard1561 fragment1583 segment1586 brack1587 parcel1596 flaw1607 fraction1609 fracture1641 pash1651 frustillation1653 hoof1655 arrachement1656 jaga1658 shattering1658 discerption1685 scar1698 twitter1715 frust1765 smithereens1841 chitling1843 1641 S. Marshall et al. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. §18 (1653) 71 Their Fractures were so many, they knew not which Religion to chuse if they should turne Christians. 1651 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Dying iv. §9. 231 Reconcile the fractures of his family. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. v. 16 Besides, the losse of his Launce, though it stuck emblematically on his sides, yet the fractures went to his heart. 1798 W. Clubbe Omnium 33 He got off his box, and went to splicing the fractures [of the harness]. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles v. vi. 180 O'er chasms he pass'd, where fractures wide Craved wary eye and ample stride. 1831 H. T. De la Beche Geol. Man. i. 28 No appearances of fracture are visible in the hills. 1876 J. S. Brewer Eng. Stud. (1881) ii. 78 They admitted no such fracture in the chain of our political existence. b. Surgery. For comminuted, compound, simple fracture, see those words. ΚΠ 1525 tr. H. von Brunschwig Noble Experyence Vertuous Handy Warke Surg. G iiij If the fracture be lytell it shall be cured like y^e contusyon aforesayd. 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 306/2 Whether it be a wounde or a Fracture. 1633 G. Herbert Repentance in Temple vi Fractures well cur'd make us more strong. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 161 Fractures of the Nose, Cheek-bones..fasten again in twenty or twenty-four days. 1769 W. Buchan Domest. Med. ii. 606 The art of reducing fractures. 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 443/1 In one [bone] the fracture had not united. 1843 A. Bethune Sc. Peasant's Fire-side 11 The fracture was a simple one. figurative.1859 J. G. Holland Gold Foil vi. 98 Old fractures of character that refuse to unite. 3. The characteristic appearance of the fresh surface in a mineral, when broken irregularly by the blow of a hammer. More fully, surface of fracture. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral structure or appearance > [noun] > cleavage or fracture > fracture surface fracture1794 fracture-surface1816 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. xxix. 453 Sparkling in its fracture like sugar. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 2 Pig iron..the fracture of which is of a dark colour. 1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. i. iii. 47 The rock at once splits with a clean fracture. 1831 D. Brewster Treat. Optics xii. 101 The two surfaces of fracture were absolutely black. 1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius iii. 65 It breaks with a resinous fracture. †4. = fraction n. 5. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > ratio or proportion > fraction > [noun] fractionc1400 broken number1552 fracturea1690 fragmenta1690 mite1702 a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 230 Forasmuch as alwayes an whole Year..is not the subject of the Question..but sometimes Parts or Fractures of the whole are useful. 5. Phonetics. The euphonic substitution of a diphthong for a simple vowel, owing to the influence of a following consonant (in Old English h, l, r); the diphthong so produced. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [noun] > fracture breaking1871 fracture1891 1891 A. L. Mayhew Synopsis Old Eng. Phonol. §81 Short eo corresponds to Germ. e, as the result of fracture before final h. 1891 A. L. Mayhew Synopsis Old Eng. Phonol. §84 eo = io the fracture of Germ. i before h + cons. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. fracture-bed n. ΚΠ 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 102/1 Fracture Beds. fracture-bedstead n. ΚΠ 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 102/2 Fracture Bedstead. fracture-box n. a combination of splints used to encase a broken limb. ΚΠ 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 685 The dislocation was easily reduced under ether..and the limb was put up in a fracture-box. b. Of fracture in the earth's crust: fracture-line n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > fault > line vees1672 fracture-line1925 1925 J. Joly Surface-hist. Earth viii. 140 The long rift valley of South Australia, mainly meridional in direction, as well as meridionally-directed fracture-lines along the eastern side of that continent. fracture-system n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > discontinuity or unconformity > [noun] > fault > system virgation1897 fracture-system1922 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 214/2 Rectilinear and regularly intersecting fracture-systems. fracture-zone n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > [noun] > type of zone greenstone belt1872 sheeted zone1903 shatter belt1910 fault zone1931 slide area1959 fracture-zone1965 subduction zone1970 1965 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. (rev. ed.) xxvi. 939 By far the most astonishing structures of the East Pacific Rise are the E–W fracture zones which have sliced the Rise into long crustal slabs. C2. fracture-surface n. = sense 3). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral structure or appearance > [noun] > cleavage or fracture > fracture surface fracture1794 fracture-surface1816 1816 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals (ed. 2) 130 The fracture-surfaces or planes thus exposed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2022). fracturev. Brit. /ˈfraktʃə/, U.S. /ˈfræktʃər/ Etymology: < fracture n. 1. a. transitive. To cause a fracture in, esp. a bone, etc.; to break the continuity of; to crack. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] breaka1000 forbreakc1000 shenec1000 burstc1250 disquattec1380 brasta1400 stonyc1440 to strike up1467 dirupt1548 unframe1548 disrump1581 split1597 crack1608 snap1679 fracture1767 disrupt1817 snop1849 1612–1794 see the ppl. adj. ] 1767 M. Cutler Jrnl. 23 Sept. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 134 I fell upon a large round timber and fractured two ribs. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 132 Before our secondary strata were formed, those of older date..were fractured and contorted. 1858 D. Lardner Hand-bk. Nat. Philos.: Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, & Heat (new ed.) 7 A liability of bursting or fracturing some parts of the machine might arise. 1859 W. Collins Queen of Hearts I. 42 She would..fracture her skull with the pony. b. To impress, excite, amuse greatly. U.S. slang. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > affect with pleasurable excitement [verb (transitive)] > give thrill of pleasurable excitement to dirl1513 slay1863 razzle-dazzle1886 to turn on1903 panic1920 wow1924 kill1938 to knock out1942 fracture1946 gas1947 stoke1963 the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > cause laughter [verb (transitive)] > convulse with laughter shake?1606 convulse1751 to break up1895 slay1927 kill1938 fracture1946 1946 H. P. M. Brown Sound of Hunting ii. 116 This guy Muller fractures me. 1951 M. Shulman Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1953) 41 We're a riot, hey. We play all kinds of funny stuff. We fracture the people. 1955 L. Feather Encycl. Jazz (1956) x. 346 Fracture, impress, excite, amuse. 1966 Crescendo Aug. 20/2 I know he fractured you the same as he did me. 1970 H. E. Roberts Third Ear 7/1 Fracture v., to make one laugh. 2. intransitive for reflexive. To suffer fracture; to break. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] burstc1000 breakc1175 rendc1275 cracka1400 perbreak?a1400 crazec1430 twinc1450 frush1489 to fall apart1761 fracture1885 1885 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 1884 279 The implements..are of sandstone..[or] quartzite, neither of which fractures by Ėtonnement. 3. Phonetics. (transitive) To subject to fracture. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [verb (transitive)] > fracture break1845 fracture1889 1889 A. J. Ellis On Early Eng. Pronunc. V. v. 496 The peculiar manner of fracturing the vowels in the A-, A′, Æ, E-, EA′, O′ words by prefixing an accented (ee) or (ii) and reducing the vowel itself to indistinct (ɐ). Derivatives ˈfractured adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective] > broken broken1383 bursted1527 pipped1540 fract1547 fracted1547 cracked1562 infract1593 fractured1617 broke1647 confragosea1684 staved1699 burst1812 bashed1830 snapped1869 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 161 Nothing cureth a fractured boane so much as rest. a1763 W. Shenstone Oeconomy iii, in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 303 Behold his chair, whose fractur'd seat infirm An aged cushion hides. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 104 That mass of fractured and sinking country. 1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) xxx. 350 The part which originally had a north pole acquires a south pole at the fractured end. ˈfracturing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] breachOE breakingc975 brusure1382 breaka1400 crasure1413 chininga1420 bursting1487 bruisinga1500 fraction?a1560 chinking1565 springingc1595 infraction1623 disruption1646 abruption1654 diruption1656 chapping1669 chopping1669 fracturea1676 rumple1746 breakage1775 disrupture1785 fracturing1830 disruptment1834 snapping1891 fractionation1926 the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [adjective] ruptive?a1425 chinking1578 breaking1597 chapping1610 obrumpent1656 disrumpent1657 snapping1823 fracturing1830 disrupting1849 disruptic1889 1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 285 The sudden application of convulsive and fracturing efforts. 1886 A. Winchell Walks & Talks in Geol. Field 221 Much fracturing of the crust must have resulted. 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