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Rupture
Definitions
- 1 A burst, split, or break. countable, uncountable
"Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed / Their callow young."
- 2 the act of making a sudden noisy break wordnet
- 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 a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) wordnet
- 5 A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle. countable, uncountable
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- 6 state of being torn or burst open wordnet
- 7 A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking. countable, uncountable
- 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 separate or cause to separate abruptly wordnet
- 3 To dehisce irregularly. intransitive
Etymology
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”).
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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