Noun : a material of unpredictable fracture.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : The new comic really fractured the audience.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used without object) : a mineral that does not fracture easily.    From Dictionary.com. 

The doctors told him he had suffered what they call a fractured dislocation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

• McCain fractured both arms and a leg, and then nearly drowned, when he parachuted into a lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain raises $21.5 million in May] Reference

Hardened skin fractured, smaller fissures spider webbing across her chest and down, splintering her belly button.    From Wordnik.com.  [FRIGID • by Erin M. Kinch] Reference

Her help to heal the party which she and Billl have fractured is needed and wanted but not if is only offered as a quid pro quo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carter says unity ticket would be 'worst mistake'] Reference

The core strength of the GOP has fractured, which is good news.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Bush Is Crappy Prez…With Charts] Reference

"I didn't want to hear that my shin had been fractured, which is what it looked like," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference

"We call the fractured human services system in Indiana this state's Humpty Dumpty," Wallihan said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chesterton Tribune] Reference

Quarterback Tony Romo exited Monday night's game here against the New York Giants with what the Cowboys called a fractured left clavicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cowboys lose Romo to fractured left clavicle] Reference

We communicate in fractured sign language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teach Me To Play Basketball] Reference

Sharon took this week when he resigned from his "fractured" ruling party.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The disease can have symptoms in adults such as fractured ribs from coughing and vomiting, and can be fatal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Your Shots:] Reference

He ran a kind of fractured campaign and yet in the end, he got 18 percent of the vote in a great big campaign and that made a difference.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 25, 2009] Reference

Can someone explain to me how a "fractured" ecosystem negatively effects the consumer?.    From Wordnik.com.  [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference

"It's better to have a global missile defence rather than kind of fractured national elements".    From Wordnik.com.  [AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)] Reference

At one point there is a kind of fractured chorale, full of brassy slides and swelling strings.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The left leg was amputated in the accident, and the right one was injured as well, "fractured".    From Wordnik.com.  [Naples Daily News Stories] Reference

"It's better to have a global missile defense rather than kind of fractured national elements," Medvedev said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking News - The Post Chronicle] Reference

"It's better to have a global missile defence rather than kind of fractured national elements," Medvedev said.    From Wordnik.com.  [AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)] Reference

There isn't full compatibility across all three of these systems but I wouldn't assign the term "fractured" to.    From Wordnik.com.  [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference

She said that voting rights could help bring together a "fractured" immigrant community, particularly among residents from Brazil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The MetroWest Daily News Homepage RSS] Reference

"fractured" with some votes counting more than others.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference

"fractured", with some votes counting more than others.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

"fractured" and is not patient-centred, Ms. Matthews said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

"fractured" and held open so the natural gas can move out more quickly and be captured.    From Wordnik.com.  [tennessean.com - Top News from The Tennessean, MUSIC CITY U.S.A] Reference

'fractured', a seasonal phenomenon caused by the contraction and expansion of metal because of temperature change.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage] Reference

A cancer-weakened vertebra fractured, excruciatingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Way to Treat the Dying] Reference

A full-body X-ray revealed broken bones, including a fractured skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sentenced to Live] Reference

What we did worry about, though, is how we'd pay for a broken leg or a fractured skull.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Times Were Tough, We Went 'Bare'] Reference

Kennedy suffered a collapsed lung, two fractured ribs and, most seriously, a broken back.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prince of Policymaking] Reference

That may be why dreams are vivid and emotionally charged, but also strange and fractured.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Dreams Are Made Of] Reference

I did not know then exactly which branch of the fractured Iranian government he worked for.    From Wordnik.com.  [118 Days, 12 Hours, 54 Minutes] Reference

Voters would be dazzled by the contrast between Cuomo's soulful poetry and Bush's fractured syntax.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Mario Scenario] Reference

In the fractured universe of identity politics, men, it seems, need a segmented identity just like everybody else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Power, Sex And A Big Tv] Reference

Dole realized Kennedy's tactics were doing serious damage to his campaign and uniting the once-fractured Democrats.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Kennedy Helped Save Clinton] Reference