verb
Frack
frak
verb
1
To extract oil or gas from rock by injecting high-pressure fluid to crack it open (hydraulic fracturing).
"The company plans to frack three new wells this year."
"Local residents protested plans to frack near the reservoir."
How to Use Frack
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishTo drill for gas or oil using high-pressure liquid to break up underground rock.
Common pairings
frack a well
ban fracking
Word Forms
fracked past tense, fracked past tense, fracks singular, fracks singular
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Etymology
Shortened from "fracture."