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What (who) is rupture - definition
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Rupture (disambiguation); Rupture (The Flash); Rupture (film)
rupture
(ruptures, rupturing, ruptured)
1.
A rupture is a severe injury in which an internal part of your body tears or bursts open, especially the part between the bowels and the abdomen.
N-COUNT
2.
If a person or animal ruptures a part of their body or if it ruptures, it tears or bursts open.
His stomach might rupture from all the acid...
Whilst playing badminton, I ruptured my Achilles tendon.
...a ruptured appendix.
VERB: V, V n, V-ed
3.
If you rupture yourself, you rupture a part of your body, usually because you have lifted something heavy.
He ruptured himself playing football.
VERB: V pron-refl
4.
If an object ruptures or if something ruptures it, it bursts open.
Certain truck gasoline tanks can rupture and burn in a collision...
Sloshing liquids can rupture the walls of their containers.
= burst
VERB: V, V n
5.
If there is a rupture between people, relations between them get much worse or end completely.
The incidents have not yet caused a major rupture in the political ties between countries.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
6.
If someone or something ruptures relations between people, they damage them, causing them to become worse or to end.
The incident ruptures a recent and fragile cease-fire.
VERB: V n
rupture
I. n.
1.
Breach, fracture, disruption, break, burst, dissolution.
2.
Quarrel, feud, contention, hostility.
3.
See hernia.
II. v. a.
Break, burst.
Rupture
·vt To produce a hernia in.
II. Rupture ·vi To suffer a breach or disruption.
III. Rupture ·noun Hernia. ·see Hernia.
V. Rupture ·noun A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. ·see Explosion.
VI. Rupture ·noun Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture.
VII. Rupture ·noun 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.
Examples of use of rupture
1. Instead, the rupture is different for large and small quakes from the beginning, and the initial rupture contains information that can be used to predict the final size.
2. The steam pipes are sometimes prone to rupture, however.
3. The steam pipes have proven prone to rupture before.
4. Allen‘s findings conflict with the current model of earthquake rupture.
5. The cause of the rupture remained under investigation.