RUPTURE

rupture

(noun) the act of making a sudden noisy break

rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out

(noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); “they hoped to avoid a break in relations”

rupture

(noun) state of being torn or burst open

tear, rupture, snap, bust

(verb) separate or cause to separate abruptly; “The rope snapped”; “tear the paper”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

rupture (countable and uncountable, plural ruptures)

A burst, split, or break.

A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.

(medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.

(engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.

Verb

rupture (third-person singular simple present ruptures, present participle rupturing, simple past and past participle ruptured)

(transitive, intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.

(botany, intransitive) To dehisce irregularly.

Source: Wiktionary

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Rup"ture, n. Etym: [L. ruptura, fr. rumpere, ruptum to break: cf. F. rupture. See Reave, and cf. Rout a defeat.]

1. The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring. Arbuthnot. Hatch from the egg, that soon, Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. Milton.

2. Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture. He knew that policy would desincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family. E. Everett.

3. (Med.)

Definition: Hernia. See Hernia.

4. A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion. Modulus of rupture. (Engin.) See under Modulus.

Syn.

– Fracture; breach; break; burst; disruption; dissolution. See Fracture.

Rup"ture, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ruptured; p. pr. & vb. n. Rupturing.]

1. To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel.

2. To produce a hernia in.

Rup"ture, v. i.

Definition: To suffer a breach or disruption.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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