fracture the balance of power.
he studied the faulting of the earth's crust.
I broke my foot while playing hockey.
it was a nasty fracture.
She broke her clavicle.
the break seems to have been caused by a fall.
The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle.
The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe.
they built it right over a geological fault.
This writer really fractures the language.