Ruptured

BP made a series of efforts to contain the leak, from deploying a four-story tall underwater balloon to shooting “junk shots” -- a mix of golf balls, rubber balls and other debris -- into the ruptured well.

The explosion ruptured the pipe.

The ceasefire has repeatedly ruptured.

All volcanoes in the dataset with magma flow rates greater than one-tenth of a cubic kilometer per year—roughly 40,000 Olympic swimming pools—ruptured their magma chambers within a year.