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fragment

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of fragment

to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly

  • you can fragment that peanut brittle easily, but how it breaks is basically up to the brittle
Synonyms of fragment

break, break up, bust, disintegrate, dismember, disrupt, fracture, rive
Words Related to fragment

atomize, crush, grind, powder, pulverize, reduce

blast, blow up, burst, detonate, explode

crack, pop, shatter, shiver, smash

chip, sliver, splinter, split

implode

destroy, ruin, wreck
Near Antonyms of fragment

doctor, fix, heal, mend, patch, rebuild, recondition, reconstruct, renovate, repair

fragment

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of fragment

a broken or irregular part of something that often remains incomplete

  • charred fragments of the exploded rocket were scattered over a huge area of ground
Synonyms of fragment

bit, fraction, piece, scrap
Words Related to fragment

cantle, shred, tatter

end, leftover, oddment, remainder, remnant, stub

portion, section, segment

chip, flake, shard, shatter, shiver, sliver, splinter

clipping, paring, shaving

atom, crumb, dribble, fleck, flyspeck, grain, granule, molecule, morsel, mote, nubbin, nugget, particle, patch, scruple, snip, snippet, speck, tittle

Synonym Discussion of fragment

part, portion, piece, member, division, section, segment, fragment mean something less than the whole. part is a general term appropriate when indefiniteness is required.
    • they ran only part of the way
portion implies an assigned or allotted part.
    • cut the pie into six portions
piece applies to a separate or detached part of a whole.
    • a puzzle with 500 pieces
member suggests one of the functional units composing a body.
    • a structural member
division applies to a large or diversified part.
    • the manufacturing division of the company
section applies to a relatively small or uniform part.
    • the entertainment section of the newspaper
segment applies to a part separated or marked out by or as if by natural lines of cleavage.
    • the retired segment of the population
fragment applies to a part produced by or as if by breaking off.
    • only a fragment of the play still exists

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