fracture
noun
the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition.
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At his pleasure he might fracture all of the decalogue that was refinedly fracturable, and so long as he rescued his social position intact from the ruin, he was her man just the same.
From Queed by Raymond Moreau Crosby