Rupture

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A burst, split, or break. countable, uncountable

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

  2. 2
    the act of making a sudden noisy break wordnet
  3. 3
    A social breach or break, between individuals or groups. countable, uncountable

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

  4. 4
    a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) wordnet
  5. 5
    A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    state of being torn or burst open wordnet
  2. 7
    A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure. ambitransitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    separate or cause to separate abruptly wordnet
  3. 3
    To dehisce irregularly. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin ruptūra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin ruptūra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from the participle stem of rumpere (“to break, burst”).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin ruptūra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin ruptūra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from the participle stem of rumpere (“to break, burst”).

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