rupture

UK /ˈɹʌptʃə/ US /ˈɹʌptʃə/
noun 4verb 2

Definitions

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.

He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.

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.

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.

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.

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