An archaic past tense or archaic verb form meaning to break, fracture, or cause to break into pieces.
Directly from Latin 'fractus,' the past participle of 'frangere' (to break), which entered Middle English through Old French but largely disappeared as modern English preferred 'broke' and 'broken.'
Fract is a ghost verb—it perfectly follows Latin verb patterns and means exactly what you'd expect, but English speakers abandoned it for 'broke,' showing how language evolution isn't always about making things more logical, sometimes just more fashionable.
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