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Definition of fracture : 1. The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
2. The breaking of a bone.
3. The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.
4. To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.

Synonyms:

demolish, snap, better, intermit, gap, unwrap, come apart, breakage, splinter, pause, pass, chemise, break dance, transmutation, erupt, crack cocaine, give, cashier, severance, relegate, give out, respite, suspension, soften, stop, sunder, crush, destroy, teddy, let on, recrudesce, break off, intermission, infract, fissure, go against, disruption, quip, kick downstairs, die, wear out, transgress, mistake, interruption, error, disclose, prison-breaking, split, recess, gaolbreak, scissure, give away, transformation, break of serve, give way, offend, help, good luck, interrupt, chap, break up, divulge, get around, rend, damp, shift key, falling out, snap off, break away, offer, ruin, collapse, dampen, whirl, break out, expose, bust, discontinue, open frame, burst, part, prisonbreak, breaking, shiver, fall in, tornado, wisecrack, work shift, crevice, slip, demote, duty period, wound, violate, wear, happy chance, sally, bump, disseverment, fling, separate, let out, shot, bring out, breach, cleavage, time out, discover, break down, cracking, cleft, jailbreak, demerit, disjunction, breakout, conk out, switching, go, founder, geological fault, break in, fail, reveal, shift, split up, cranny, develop, shimmy, dislocation, weaken, shifting, go bad, displacement, smash, bankrupt, get out, sever, switch, fall apart, rive, faulting, cave in, sack

eyesore, defacement, fleck, scrape, rift, chip, deform, pockmark, nick, weal, slit, spot, speck, distortion, brand, discoloration, discolor, gash, scab, spoilage, kink, impurity, wart, stigma, splotch, disfigure, crack, distort, deface, notch, damage, deformity, taint, hurt, scar, dot, sore, flaw, hole, scratch, imperfection, mark, blister, drawback, check, defect, abrasion, freckle, lesion, spoil, blemish, stain, abrade, disfigurement, hack, tarnish, blot, scuff, fault, score, blotch, mar

decay, break, dissect, degenerate, mortify, dissolve, shatter, putrefy, crumble, decompose, rot, turn, anatomize, disintegrate, rupture

Usage examples:

• The opening was made with the usual fracture, which Irene bore with a smile, for she was naturally voluptuous. - "The Memoires of Casanova, Complete The Rare Unabridged London Edition Of 1894, plus An Unpublished Chapter of History, By Arthur Symons", Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.
• It is treated on the same lines as Colles' fracture. - "Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition.", Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson.
• It was a bad fracture. - "K", Mary Roberts Rinehart.