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noun

Rupture n.

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. "Hatch from the egg, that soon, Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young."

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."

(Med.) Hernia. See Hernia.

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.

Synonyms: Fracture; breach; break; burst; disruption; dissolution. See Fracture.

verb

Rupture v. t. (past & past part. ruptured; pres. part. rupturing)

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

To produce a hernia in.

Rupture v. i. To suffer a breach or disruption.

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Etymology of 'Rupture'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... 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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