Hyphenation of fracture

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word fracture? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

frac-ture

Definitions of fracture:

1.	Breaking of hard tissue such as bone It was a nasty fracture The break seems to have been caused by a fall
2.	(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other They built it right over a geological fault He studied the faulting of the earth's crust
3.	The act of cracking something
4.	Violate or abuse This writer really fractures the language
5.	Interrupt, break, or destroy Fracture the balance of power
6.	Break into pieces The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle
7.	Become fractured The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe
8.	Break (a bone) She broke her clavicle
9.	Fracture a bone of I broke my foot while playing hockey

Synonyms of fracture:

noun	break, injury, hurt, harm, trauma
noun	fault, geological fault, shift, break, crack, cleft, crevice, fissure, scissure
noun	crack, cracking, breakage, break, breaking
verb	pervert, misuse, abuse
verb	destroy, destruct
verb	break
verb	break, break off, discontinue, stop
verb	break, injure, wound

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.