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  • adjective not comparable Broken into sharp pieces.
  • adjective Split into groups which disagree.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of fracture.

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Examples

  • The doctors told him he had suffered what they call a fractured dislocation.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • And these lavish production values give the whole video the feel of a manufactured lesson in fractured identities; it isn't a real-world demonstration of them, such as Tan gave in her earlier works.

    Art review: 'Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall' at the Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery Blake Gopnik 2010

  • Hardened skin fractured, smaller fissures spider webbing across her chest and down, splintering her belly button.

    FRIGID • by Erin M. Kinch 2009

  • There is even a comedy Russian, who makes pointed comments in fractured English.

    The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle – review Nicholas Lezard 2010

  • Griffin fractured his left patella on October 26 and missed the entire 2009-10 season, and the Clippers can only hope the 2009 No. 1 overall draft pick heals quickly in preparation for the 2010-11 campaign, as the team could certainly use the potential scoring and rebounding he can provide on a nightly basis. —

    Los Angeles Clippers Team Report 2010

  • • McCain fractured both arms and a leg, and then nearly drowned, when he parachuted into a lake.

    McCain raises $21.5 million in May 2008

  • • McCain fractured both arms and a leg, and then nearly drowned, when he parachuted into a lake.

    Obama, McCain talk 2008

  • • McCain fractured both arms and a leg, and then nearly drowned, when he parachuted into a lake.

    Lanny Davis joins VoteBoth 2008

  • Her help to heal the party which she and Billl have fractured is needed and wanted but not if is only offered as a quid pro quo.

    Carter says unity ticket would be 'worst mistake' 2008

  • Since I'm not much interested in fractured realms, convoluted sentences, leagues of subversives, or eponymously named clents, I don't bother to spend even ten mintues lusting after the gold of Hardinge's forms.

    Review of the Day: The Best Book of 2006 fusenumber8 2006

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