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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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... 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 watermelon-tree from a peach-vine to save his life. You are the loser by this rupture, not me, ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... doctor of the fourth district certified that death was due to rupture of the heart, owing to the excessive use of alcoholic liquids. The body of the said Smelkoff was interred. After several days had elapsed, the merchant Timokhin, a fellow-townsman and companion of the ...

— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy

... ourselves, as far as possible, of the associations already connected with the name; not enjoining the employment of it in a manner which conflicts with all previous habits, and especially not so as to require the rupture of those strongest of all associations between names, which are created by familiarity with propositions in which they are predicated of one another. A philosopher would have little chance of having his example followed, if he were to give such a meaning to his terms as should require us to call ...

— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill

... each blow, the whole room shook, the floor trembled, and the spectators could not repress a shudder at the frightful noise which was heard, as each blow fell on the convulsionist's breast." We need not be surprised that he adds,—"Not only ought such strokes naturally to rupture the minute vessels, the delicate glands, the veins and the arteries of which the breast is composed,—not only ought they, in the course of Nature, to have crushed and reduced the whole to a bloody mass,—but they ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 76, February, 1864 • Various

... a man of great ability who was making his way as a journalist in another city, had no explanation to give of his father's peculiarities. Though he never came to Shelby—the rupture between the two, if rupture it were, seeming to be complete—there were many who had visited him in his own place of business and put such questions concerning the judge and his eccentric manner of living as must have ...

— Dark Hollow • Anna Katharine Green

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