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fractured

adjective

  1. having been split apart
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Wiktionary

adj

  1. Broken into sharp pieces.

    Of the nine staff in the third coach, most had been having a break, drinking tea or reading. One suffered a fractured skull, another a fractured shoulder. All were either thrown along or across the coach, sustaining cuts, bruising and whiplash injuries.

  2. Split into groups which disagree.

    Her fractured family could never agree on anything.

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of fracture