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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fractured
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
broken/fractured
▪ He was taken to hospital with a broken arm.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
skull
▪ Mr Healy died later in a Dublin hospital from bleed of the brain and a fractured skull.
▪ Pathologist Mustansir Nurbhai said Mr Thompson died of extensive cerebral haemorrhage due to a fractured skull.
▪ I suspect she has a fractured skull and her cheekbone is also broken.
▪ He is thought to have a fractured skull and is drifting in and out of consciousness.
▪ He had emergency surgery on his fractured skull but died 12 hours later from brain injuries.
▪ He suffered brain damage caused by a fractured skull and died later in Middlesbrough General hospital.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The X-ray revealed that she had several fractured ribs.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He said the cause of death was brain damage due to a fractured skull.
▪ He was managed conservatively, the fractured pelvis being treated by rest in bed.
▪ I wanted to lay on him the burden of our fractured present.
▪ It's only a broken collar-bone and two fractured ribs.
▪ Scores of firemen spent four hours after the explosion trying to repair a fractured gas pipe in the middle of High Street.
▪ She couldn't help thinking about the Porsche and Nigel's fractured pelvis.
▪ The graceful flourish of his handwriting contrasted oddly with the fractured grammar and exotic spelling of his prose.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fractured

damaged \damaged\ (d[a^]m"[asl]jd), adj.

  1. changed so as to reduce value, function, or other desirable trait; -- usually not used of persons. Opposite of undamaged. [Narrower terms: battered, beat-up, beaten-up, bedraggled, broken-down, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down, unsound; bent, crumpled, dented; blasted, rent, ripped, torn; broken-backed; burned-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt-out(prenominal), burnt out(predicate); burst, ruptured; corroded; cracked, crackled, crazed; defaced, marred; hurt, weakened; knocked-out(prenominal), knocked out; mangled, mutilated; peeling; scraped, scratched; storm-beaten] Also See blemished, broken, damaged, destroyed, impaired, injured, unsound.

  2. Rendered imperfect by impairing the integrity of some part, or by breaking. Opposite of unbroken. [Narrower terms: busted; chipped; cracked; crumbled, fragmented; crushed, ground; dissolved; fractured; shattered, smashed, splintered; split; unkept, violated] Also See: damaged, imperfect, injured, unsound.

    Syn: broken.

  3. being unjustly brought into disrepute; as, her damaged reputation.

    Syn: discredited.

  4. made to appear imperfect; -- especially of reputation; as, the senator's seriously damaged reputation.

    Syn: besmirched, flyblown, spotted, stained, sullied, tainted, tarnished.

Wiktionary
fractured
  1. 1 (context not comparable English) Broken into sharp pieces. 2 Split into groups which disagree. v

  2. (en-past of: fracture)

WordNet
fractured

adj. used of a break or crack or tear in bone or cartilage; "serious injuries such as broken bones and fractured skulls"

Wikipedia
Fractured (band)

Fractured was an Industrial band created by Canadian Nick Gorman in 2003. Formed in Toronto, his self produced release CD-R demo titled Contami-Nation caught the attention of European label Dependent who signed them. After the release of the demo Gorman was joined by Famine and in 2006 released their debut CD, Only Human Remains. Fractured's third release, Beneath The Ashes, was released by Dependent (Europe) and Metropolis Records (North America) in 2011. According to the bands website, all things related to Fractured ended in 2013.

Fractured (album)

Fractured is the second full-length album by American technical death metal band Capharnaum.

Fractured (novel)

Fractured is the second novel in the Atlanta series from bestselling author Karin Slaughter. The first book is Triptych. This book was published in 2008. These books star Will Trent, a dyslexic Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent. The books also feature Angie Polaski and Faith Mitchell. Slaughter also writes the Grant County series. The audiobook is narrated by Phil Gigante.

Fractured (Everything I Said Was True)

"Fractured (Everything I Said Was True)" is the lead single from Taproot's fifth studio album Plead the Fifth. It is the band's first single released through Victory Records.

This is the band's first song to chart within the top 20 of the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks since 2005's " Calling" from Blue-Sky Research.

Fractured

Fractured may refer to:

  • fracture
  • Fractured (band), an industrial band
  • Fractured (novel), a 2008 novel by Karin Slaughter
  • Fractured (album), an album by Capharnaum
  • "Fractured" (Bill Haley song), a song by Bill Haley & His Comets
  • " Fractured (Everything I Said Was True)", a song by Taproot from the album Plead the Fifth
  • Fractured (film), a 2013 horror film by Adam Gierasch
Fractured (film)

Fractured (originally known as Schism) is a 2013 horror thriller film that was directed by Adam Gierasch, based on a script by Gierasch and his writing partner Jace Anderson. The film had its world premiere on October 12, 2013 at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival. It stars Callum Blue as an amnesiac trying to discover what exactly happened to him.

Fractured (Bill Haley song)

"Fractured" was the title of an early rock and roll song written by Bill Haley and Marshall Lytle and first recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets under the name Bill Haley with Haley's Comets in 1953. The song was released as an Essex Records 78 single.

Usage examples of "fractured".

Lionel Brown had fractured his left leg in at least two places, broken his left wrist, and probably crushed a couple of ribs.

Commune of Paris, Tarnier, one night at the Maternite, was called to an inmate who, while lying in bed near the end of pregnancy, had been killed by a ball which fractured the base of the skull and entered the brain.

There are several cases on record in which the muscular exertion in throwing a stone or ball, or in violently kicking the leg, has fractured one or both of the bones of an extremity.

There was a case recently reported of a man admitted to the Bellevue Hospital, New York, whose arm was supposed to have been fractured by an explosion, but instead of which 11 feet of lead wire were found in it by the surgeons.

The 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th ribs were fractured and torn apart, and about an inch of the substance of the 4th rib was lost.

The principal symptoms were hemorrhage from the vagina and intense pain near the fractured rib, followed by emphysema.

Striking the ribs near the left nipple it fractured three, and made its exit.

By seizing the spinous process it could be bent backward and forward, with the peculiar crepitus of fractured bone.

The clavicle was fractured two inches from the acromial end, and the sternal end was driven high up into the muscles of the neck.

His skull was fractured at the parietal eminence and the pericranium stripped off, leaving a bloody tumor near the base of the fracture about two inches in diameter.

After his removal it was found that his left humerus was fractured at its lower third, and apparently comminuted.

Erichsen effected recovery by rest alone, in an individual whose ribs and both clavicles were fractured by being squeezed.

He was picked up conscious, but both legs were fractured about the middle.

The left metacarpal bones were dislocated from the carpal bones, the left tibia was fractured, and there were contusions about the back and hips.

The alveolar process of the right jaw was fractured, and the gum lacerated to the entire length of the root.