RUPTURED

Adjective

ruptured (not comparable)

Having a rupture; broken, leaking.

Verb

ruptured

simple past tense and past participle of rupture

Anagrams

• pur et dur

Source: Wiktionary


Rup"tured, a. (Med.)

Definition: Having a rupture, or hernia.

RUPTURE

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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