rupture
nounverbattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈɹʌpt͡ʃəː//
- United Kingdom/[ˈɹʷʌ̹pt͡ʃəː]/
- United States//ˈɹʌpt͡ʃɚ//
- United States/[ˈɹʷʌ̈pt͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈɹʷʌ̈pt͡ʃɹ̩]/
A burst, split, or break.
noun
- 1
A burst, split, or break.
Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed / Their callow young.
- 2
A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
Thus a war was kindled with Lubec; Denmark took part with the king's enemies, and made use of a frivolous pretence, which demonstrated the inclination of his Danish majesty to come to a rupture.
He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
Our age of what Mark Carney called global rupture is also often described as following the “law of the jungle”, in which the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must, with international law shattered and multilateral organisations hollowed out.
- 3
A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
- 4
A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-? Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- Proto-Indo-European *-né- Proto-Indo-European *Hrunépti Latin rumpō Latin ruptūrader. Middle French rupturebor. ▲ Latin ruptūrabor. English rupture Borrowed from Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin ruptūra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin ruptūra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from the participle stem of rumpere (“to break, burst”). Doublet of roture.
verb
- 1
To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.
- 2
To dehisce irregularly.
Forms
- plural
- ruptures
- past tense
- ruptured
- past participle
- ruptured
- present participle
- rupturing
- third person singular
- ruptures