fracture

noun

1. An instance of breaking, a place where something has broken.

   “Hall found the immediate cause at Rickerscote to have been the complete fracture of an axle on STS 53241, the freight train's ninth wagon. The fracture had been caused by fatigue initiated by corrosion pitting on the axle surface.”

2. A break in bone or cartilage.
3. A fault or crack in a rock.

verb

1. (ambitransitive)To break, or cause something to break.
2. (slang, transitive)To amuse (a person) greatly; to split someone's sides.

   ““You fracture me, Frankie,” Patsy said. “You should take that act on the road. Howsabout now?” This is the way it would go whenever I showed up at Patsy's, a dual of digs and wisecracks with the disapproving groans of those within earshot.”