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Rupture   /rˈəptʃər/   Listen
Rupture

noun
1.
State of being torn or burst open.
2.
A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions).  Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rift, severance.
3.
The act of making a sudden noisy break.
verb
(past & past part. ruptured; pres. part. rupturing)
1.
Separate or cause to separate abruptly.  Synonyms: bust, snap, tear.  "Tear the paper"



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"Rupture" Quotes from Famous Books



... done it. And I'd have given you the best class of readers that ever an agricultural paper had—not a farmer in it, nor a solitary individual who could tell a water-melon tree from a peach-vine to save his life. You are the loser by this rupture, not ...
— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie
... This rupture was unlucky for him. Evil days returned; he had no more work, and fell into such a fearful state of wretchedness that, no longer knowing what would become of him, he begged his friend the doctor to obtain him ...
— Bohemians of the Latin Quarter • Henry Murger
... funeral came many distant relatives I had never rested eye on before ... especially there came my Great-aunt Rachel, Granma Gregory's sister,—a woman just as sweet-natured as she, and almost her twin even to the blue rupture of a vein in the middle of the lower lip. She, too, had a slightly protrusive stomach over which she had the habit of folding her hard-working hands restfully, when she talked ... and also there came with her my Great-uncle Joshua, her husband ... and my ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... trade; but even of this vessel the Spanish king was to have one-fourth of the profits, and a tax of five per cent. on the residue. The first vessel did not sail till 1717, and the year after a rupture with ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... her pranks by an exile of four years in her manor of Saint-Fargeau. The rupture with her father, who drove her out of doors, and denied her permission to take refuge under any other roof he owned, her consequent wanderings, at times not a little affecting, and at others comical, ...
— Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Sutherland Menzies


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