States and conditions
Synonyms for fracture
The synonym for fracture recorded in this bank is break, in the sense "breaking of hard tissue such as bone". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for fracture
- breaknoun, in the sense "breaking of hard tissue such as bone"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for fracture.
breaking of hard tissue such as bone
It was a nasty fracture.
The true synonym
break
Same sentence, swapped: It was a nasty break.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for fracture in the sentence quoted.
- cracking
- pinch
- sting
Where fracture turns up in the game
fracture is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where fracture is the trap
- eliminateverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is extinguish, in the sense "terminate, end, or take out", and fracture is one of the three tiles that lose.
- splinternoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is sliver, in the sense "a small thin sharp bit of wood or glass or metal", so fracture is there to be ruled out.
Play fracture
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fracture reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other states and conditions words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. fracture carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.