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n. The process or instance of breaking open or bursting.

n. The state of being broken open.

n. A break in friendly relations.

n. Pathology A hernia, especially of the groin or intestines.

n. Pathology A tear in an organ or a tissue: rupture of an appendix; ligament rupture.

v. To break open; burst.

verb-intransitive. To undergo or suffer a rupture.

n. A burst, split, or break.

n. A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.

n. A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.

n. A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.

v. To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.

n. The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder.

n. Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations.

n. Hernia. See Hernia.

n. A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion.

v. To part by violence; to break; to burst.

v. To produce a hernia in.

verb-intransitive. To suffer a breach or disruption.

n. The act of breaking or bursting; the state of being broken or violently parted: as, a rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber.

n. In pathology, hernia, especially abdominal hernia.

n. A breach of peace or concord, either between individuals or between nations; open hostility or war between nations; a quarrel.

n. Synonyms Breach, etc. See fracture.

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

To affect with or cause to suffer from rupture or hernia.

To cause a break or severance of: as, to rupture friendly relations.

To suffer a break or rupture; break.

In botany, specifically, to dehisce irregularly; dehisce in a ruptile manner.

n. In mech.: The splitting or tearing of a boiler or tank from internal pressure or stress, as distinguished from an explosion in which it flies into pieces.

n. A breakage or tearing apart by tensile stress in excess of the resisting capacity of the piece.

To tear apart; open along a line or at one point, without destroying the whole structure: said of boilers or tanks, as distinguished from explode.

n. state of being torn or burst open

n. the act of making a sudden noisy break

n. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

v. separate or cause to separate abruptly

"And for him, such a rupture is simply not an issue."

ruptured    ruptures    rupturing   

break    breaking    breakage   

generative rupture    moment of rupture    modulus of rupture    radius of rupture    rupture of the choroid    rupture length    plane of rupture    tension rupture   

hernia    explosion   

ruptured    rupturing   

break    breach    dissolution    disruption    burst    fracture   

disruption    inflammation    contraction    dissolution    separation    perforation    collapse    breach    hemorrhage    breakdown