verb
- past tense and past participle of frack; to inject liquid at high pressure into rock to force open existing fissures and extract oil or gas
Usage: technical; energy industry
Examples
- The oil company fracked the shale formation to access natural gas deposits.
- Several wells were fracked in the region last year.
- Environmental groups opposed the plan to frack the land near the water supply.
- The site had been fracked multiple times over the past decade.
- They fracked the rock layer to increase oil production.