"fragments" in the noun sense
1. fragment
a piece broken off or cut off of something else
"a fragment of rock"
2. shard, sherd, fragment
a broken piece of a brittle artifact
3. fragment
an incomplete piece
"fragments of a play"
"fragments" in the verb sense
1. break up, fragment, fragmentize, fragmentise
break or cause to break into pieces
"The plate fragmented"
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