Synonyms of fractures

fractures 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of fracture

1

as in disrupts

to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly

fractured his arm in the fall

Synonyms & Similar Words

• disrupts
• breaks
• fragments
• disintegrates
• reduces
• splits
• shatters
• destroys
• ruins
• breaks up
• cracks
• crushes
• smashes
• busts
• blasts
• dismembers
• chips
• rives
• bursts
• grinds
• wrecks
• explodes
• powders
• pops
• detonates
• pulverizes
• shivers
• blows up
• splinters
• atomizes
• slivers
• implodes

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• repairs
• heals
• doctors
• fixes
• rebuilds
• mends
• reconstructs
• patches
• renovates
• reconditions

2

as in violates

to fail to keep

civil liberties that have been fractured by the government's actions

Synonyms & Similar Words

• violates
• breaks
• breaches
• infringes (on or upon)
• offends
• transgresses
• contravenes
• rebels
• ignores
• traduces
• neglects
• disobeys
• disregards
• passes over
• resists
• blows off
• slights
• flouts
• overlooks
• brushes (off)
• winks (at)
• scorns
• dismisses
• shrugs off
• withstands
• overpasses
• tunes out
• defies
• pooh-poohs

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• conforms (to)
• follows
• minds
• yields (to)
• obeys
• observes
• complies (with)
• submits (to)
• serves
• surrenders (to)
• listens (to)
• marks
• defers (to)
• notices
• notes
• regards
• watches
• attends
• hears
• heeds

fractures

2 of 2

noun

plural of fracture

as in fissures

Related Words

• fissures
• ruptures
• tears
• lacerations
• rifts
• splits
• gashes
• cracks
• incisions
• slits
• rents
• gaps
• cuts
• slashes
• openings
• clefts
• crevices
• breaks
• rips
• notches
• breaches
• snags
• crannies
• grooves
• gouges
• chinks
• chasms
• hollows
• voids
• cavities
• caves
• excavations
• trenches
• caverns
• abysses
• ditches
• furrows
• pits
• vacuums
• burrows
• checks
• vacuities
• dents
• depressions
• troughs
• gutters
• indentations
• holes
• concavities
• gulfs
• recesses
• dints
• indentures

Dissimilar Words

• repairs
• unions
• connections
• fillings
• combinations
• closings
• junctions
• couplings
• mergers
• implosions
• consolidations
• tumors
• hills
• unifications
• swellings
• bumps
• mounds
• rises
• swells
• projections
• lumps
• pimples
• sewings
• humps
• joinings
• protrusions
• knittings
• protuberances
• bulges
• convexities
• bunches
• cambers
• juts

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of fractures

Verb

When ambitious young athlete Jamal (Stenline) enters her life and confronts the dangerous world around her, everything fractures. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 1 July 2026

And Mary’s electric, palpably physical pursuit of justice becomes even more crucial in the final act, after a grotesque display of performative mockery toward Māori culture fractures the last remnants of civility present amid one of Cole’s lavish-yet-repulsive gatherings. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 17 May 2026

What fractures globalized production naturally results in higher prices just as what integrates global production naturally results in lower prices. — John Tamny, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026

After last week's redistricting push by Tennessee Republicans, the thoroughfare now serves as a boundary line that fractures the majority-Black city's residents into three congressional seats that are likely to be held by Republicans. — Stephen Fowler, NPR, 15 May 2026

Asking them to leapfrog to low-carbon pathways while denying them finance, technology, and infrastructure undermines trust and fractures global cooperation—the very cooperation climate action depends on. — Damilola Ogunbiyi, Time, 19 Mar. 2026

South America fractures into a puzzle of fjords and channels at the southernmost tip of the continent, the Brunswick Peninsula, in Chile’s Magallanes Region, where the future park will protect temperate rainforests, shrublands, and vast carbon-capturing peat bogs. — Mark Johanson, Outside, 14 Mar. 2026

And yet, beneath the applause and the accolades, something quietly fractures. — Kaitlyn Gomez, USA Today, 27 Feb. 2026

After someone experiences a significant trauma to their body—such as a high-speed ski crash that fractures their leg—the surrounding muscles can rapidly bleed and swell. — Claire Maldarelli, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2026

Noun

Osteoporotic fractures are responsible for more hospitalizations than heart attacks, strokes, and breast cancer combined, at $400,000 per hip fracture patient per year in care costs. — Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026

Upon arriving at the hospital, doctors determined that the colorful bird — belonging to the same family as crows and jays — had left quite a bit of damage, including multiple fractures in Montalva's left cheekbone and a rare fracture of the hyoid bone in her neck. — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025

The medical examiner also observed multiple rib fractures and a sternal fracture, the autopsy shows. — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2025