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rupture
[ ruhp-cher ]
noun
- the act of breaking or bursting:
The flood led to the rupture of the dam.
- the state of being broken or burst:
a rupture in the earth's surface.
- a breach of harmonious, friendly, or peaceful relations.
- Pathology. hernia, especially abdominal hernia.
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
- to suffer a break or rupture.
rupture
/ ˈrʌptʃə /
noun
- the act of breaking or bursting or the state of being broken or burst
- a breach of peaceful or friendly relations
- pathol
- the breaking or tearing of a bodily structure or part
- another word for hernia
verb
- to break or burst or cause to break or burst
- to affect or be affected with a rupture or hernia
- to undergo or cause to undergo a breach in relations or friendship
Derived Forms
- ˈrupturable, adjective
Other Words From
- ruptur·a·ble adjective
- non·ruptur·a·ble adjective
- non·rupture noun
- un·ruptur·a·ble adjective
- un·ruptured adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of rupture1
Example Sentences
He said crews were not sure what caused the main to rupture.
A widely known concept in studying family interactions, “rupture and repair,” describes the importance of the repair process after a negative interaction.
When we feel shame, we are unable to engage in the “repair” step, which only leaves the rupture.
The conversion of public subsidy into private profit feels like a rupture in the system—one that would be fixed, perhaps, if states controlled the fruits of their funding more.
Philip’s reported insistence on leaving his own mark may have led to a post-coronation rupture in their relationship.
Over the next eight years, the rupture would fissure across every state and territory in the Union.
A fragile and divided Lebanon risks rupture over the civil war raging next door in Syria.
Are we living through a parallel period – an end of an era before a rupture?
The second section, Rupture, represents the state between death and rebirth.
The exhibition is divided into three sections: origin, rupture, and rebirth.
Between South and North, the probabilities of a serious, and no very distant rupture, are strong and manifest.
One of these is the liability to inguinal hernia, or rupture, which leads to much suffering and frequent death in man.
It is remarkable that this was not against the composers wishes, even if he did nothing actually to cause the rupture.
An address founded on these resolutions was voted; many thought that a violent rupture was inevitable.
She was bound to him by bonds so intimately and secretly interwoven that to rupture any one of them would kill her.
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