🇬🇧 Fragment meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

To fragment means to break something into many smaller pieces, or to fall apart into little bits. Imagine a whole cookie that gets smashed and turns into lots of tiny crumbs—that cookie has been fragmented. We can fragment hard things, like rocks or chocolate bars, and we can also fragment ideas or stories, by breaking them into smaller parts.

My sand pie fragmented when I tried to serve it, proving that I should probably not open a restaurant on the beach.

The robot we built from cardboard fragmented as soon as it tried to take its very first heroic step.

I sneezed so loudly that my carefully built card tower fragmented into 52 flying paper rectangles of doom.

Our plan to stay quiet in class fragmented the moment someone snorted while trying not to laugh.

When a meteor hits a planet or moon, it can fragment into many smaller pieces—basically, it does the world’s most dramatic space shatter.

On the kitchen tile a glass ornament slips and fragments, tiny lights fragment across the floor. Each piece fragments the bright morning into sharp stars. He watches as the vase fragments more, heart racing. They scoop fragments into a box, hands shaking, then laugh at the small mess and hug, relieved.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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