noun. An instance of breaking open or bursting.

noun. A break in friendly relations.

noun. undefined

noun. A hernia, especially of the groin or intestines.

noun. A tear in an organ or tissue.

intransitive verb. To cause to undergo or suffer a rupture.

intransitive verb. To undergo or suffer a rupture.

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.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. In pathology, hernia, especially abdominal hernia.

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

noun. Synonyms Breach, etc. See fracture.

intransitive verb. To suffer a breach or disruption.

transitive verb. To part by violence; to break; to burst.

transitive verb. To produce a hernia in.

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

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

noun. Hernia. See Hernia.

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

noun. (Engin.) See under Modulus.

noun. A burst, split, or break.

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

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

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

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

noun. state of being torn or burst open

noun. the act of making a sudden noisy break

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

verb. separate or cause to separate abruptly

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

generative rupture  modulus of rupture  moment of rupture  plane of rupture  radius of rupture  

ruptured  rupturing  

break  breakage  breaking  

aneurysm  breach  breakdown  catastrophe  cessation  

abrade  abrasion  abysm  abyss  alienation  

explosion  hernia  

ruptured  ruptures  rupturing