Rupture
Rupture (?; 135) , noun
[Latin ruptura, from rumpere, ruptum to break: compare French rupture. See Reave, and compare Rout a defeat.]
1.
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. — Arbuthnot
Hatch from the egg, that soon,
Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed
Their callow young.
2.
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.
3.
(Medicine) Hernia. See Hernia.
4.
A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion.
Collocations (1)
Modulus of rupture , (Engineering) See under Modulus.
Rupture , transitive verb
1.
To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel.
2.
To produce a hernia in.
Rupture , intransitive verb
To suffer a breach or disruption.