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rup⋅ture

  [ruhp-cher] noun, verb, -tured, -tur⋅ing.
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–noun
1. the act of breaking or bursting: The flood led to the rupture of the dam.
2. the state of being broken or burst: a rupture in the earth's surface.
3. a breach of harmonious, friendly, or peaceful relations.
4. Pathology. hernia, esp. abdominal hernia.
–verb (used with object)
5. to break or burst: He ruptured a blood vessel.
6. to cause a breach of: to rupture friendly relations.
7. Pathology. to affect with hernia.
–verb (used without object)
8. to suffer a break or rupture.
Origin:
1475–85; < L ruptūra (n.), equiv. to rupt(us) (ptp. of rumpere to break) + -ūra -ure

Related forms:
rup⋅tur⋅a⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
2. fracture, break, split, burst. 5. fracture, split, disrupt.

Antonyms:
2. seam, union. 5. unite.
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rup·ture   (rŭp'chər)   
n.  
    1. The process or instance of breaking open or bursting.
    2. The state of being broken open.
    3. A hernia, especially of the groin or intestines.
    4. A tear in an organ or a tissue: rupture of an appendix; ligament rupture.
  2. A break in friendly relations.
  3. Pathology
    1. A hernia, especially of the groin or intestines.
    2. A tear in an organ or a tissue: rupture of an appendix; ligament rupture.
v.   rup·tured, rup·tur·ing, rup·tures

v.   tr.
To break open; burst.
v.   intr.
To undergo or suffer a rupture.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin ruptūra, from ruptus, past participle of rumpere, to break; see reup- in Indo-European roots.]
rup'tur·a·ble adj.
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Rupture

Rup"ture\ (?; 135), n. [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 broken 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 disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family. --E. Everett.

3. (Med.) 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.

Rupture

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.

Rupture

Rup"ture\, v. i. To suffer a breach or disruption.
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Language Translation for : rupture
Spanish: ruptura, quebradura; hernia,
German: der Bruch,
Japanese: 破裂
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rupture  (n.)
1481, from L. ruptura "the breaking (of an arm or leg), fracture," from pp. stem of rumpere "to break," cognate with O.E. reafian "to seize, rob, plunder," reofan "to tear, break;" O.N. rjufa "to break;" see reft). Meaning "abdominal hernia" first attested 1539. The verb is first recorded 1739.
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Main Entry: 1rup·ture
Pronunciation: 'r&p-ch&r
Function: noun
1 : the tearing apart of a tissue <rupture of theheart muscle> <rupture of an intervertebral disk>
2 : HERNIA

Main Entry: 2rupture
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: rup·tured; rup·tur·ing /-ch&-ri[ng], -shri[ng]/
transitivesenses
: to produce a rupture in <rupture an eardrum> rupture intransitive senses
: to have or undergo a rupture
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rupture rup·ture (rŭp'chər)
n.

  1. The process of breaking open or bursting.
  2. A hernia, especially of the groin or intestines.
  3. A tear in an organ or a tissue.
v. rup·tured, rup·tur·ing, rup·tures
To break open; burst.

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