Rupture

Rupture stress is much higher in the case of metals as it is for plastics.

The American surgeon said he tends to agree with news reports that the 80-year-old Mr. Castro most likely was being treated for diverticulitis — inflamed sacs on the walls of the intestines or stomach. The danger is that the inflamed tissue might rupture in the abdominal cavity.

After extensively studying the quake and its aftermath, scientists say the rupture is unprecedented.

Becoming rivals in love caused the rupture of friendship.

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.