fractured
adjective /ˈfræktʃəd/
/ˈfræktʃərd/
[usually before noun]- broken or cracked (= damaged but not completely broken)
- He suffered a badly fractured arm.
- A gas escape from a fractured pipe was the likely cause of the explosion.
- (formal) (of a society, an organization, etc.) split into several parts so that it no longer functions or exists
- a fractured, disintegrating country
- (of a language that is not your own) spoken slowly and with a lot of mistakes synonym broken (6)
- They spoke a sort of fractured German.