fract

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/fɹækt/

verb

To break; to violate.

OriginLatin frāctus →
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Meanings

verbfract (third-person singular simple present fracts, present participle fracting, simple past and past participle fracted)

present singular third person fracts · participle present fracting · participle past fracted · past fracted

  1. obsoleteTo break; to violate.
    1 more example

    Hoſt[ess]. As euer you come of women, come in quickly to ſir Iohn: A poore heart, hee is ſo ſhak’d of a burning quotidian Tertian, that it is moſt lamentable to behold. Sweet men, come to him. / Nym. The King hath run bad humors on the Knight, that’s the euen of it. / Piſt[ol]. Nym, thou haſt ſpoke the right, his heart is fracted and corroborate.

    1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 74, column 1

Origin

  1. Latinfrāctus
  2. Englishfract

From Latin frāctus, past participle of frangere (“to break”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with fract

contactactfactcontractimpactabstractexactextractpackedinteractbackedattracttractreactintactcrackedpactsubtractenactdistracttransacttactcounteractretract
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Sounds the same

frakked

Anagrams

craft
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APA

fract. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fract

MLA

“fract.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fract. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fract,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fract.

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