Rupture

/ˈɹʌpt͡ʃəː/ · noun

Meaning

A burst, split, or break..

Definitions by Sense

1. A burst, split, or break.
2. A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
3. (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
4. (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
5. (ambitransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
6. (botany, intransitive) To dehisce irregularly.

Example Sentences

Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed / Their callow young.

He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.

Thus a war was kindled with Lubec; Denmark took part with the king's enemies, and made use of a frivolous pretence, which demonstrated the inclination of his Danish majesty to come to a rupture.

The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.

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Word Forms

• ruptures
• rupturing
• ruptured

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