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Rupture   /rˈəptʃər/   Listen
noun
Rupture  n.  
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. "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.
(Med.) Hernia. See Hernia.
4.
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)  
1.
To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel.
2.
To produce a hernia in.


Rupture  v. i.  To suffer a breach or disruption.





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... with the natives now went on with tolerable smoothness, though their thieving propensities frequently nearly brought about a rupture. On one occasion, in Captain Cook's presence, a native seized the musket of one of the guards on shore, and made off with it. Some of the seamen were sent after him, but he would have escaped had not the natives also given ...
— Captain Cook - His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries • W.H.G. Kingston
... treachery of Newcastle, delayed the settlement. Pitt knew the Duke too well to trust him without security. The Duke loved power too much to be inclined to give security. While they were haggling, the King was in vain attempting to produce a final rupture between them, or to form a Government without them. At one time he applied to Lord Waldegrave, an honest and sensible man, but unpractised in affairs. Lord Waldegrave had the courage to accept the Treasury, but soon ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... formality; neither is it subservient to any thing beside itself. It may be present in a disagreeable object, in which the proportion of the parts constitutes a whole; it does not arise from association, as the agreeable does, but sometimes lies in the rupture of association; it is not different to different individuals and nations, as has been said, nor is it connected with the ideas of the good, or the fit, or the useful. The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, ...
— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge
... I replied. "It ended as all great passions end,—by a misunderstanding. Both sides imagine treachery, pride prevents an explanation, and the rupture comes about through obstinacy." ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various
... studied the case. On the day of the trial, I with two other physicians examined the girl. It was found that a cotton swab about 3/8 of an inch in diameter could with difficulty penetrate the vaginal orifice. There was not the slightest evidence of any rupture of the hymen or of any vaginitis. So far as the "awful disease'' was concerned, repeated bacteriological tests over a considerable period failed to show the extensive vulvitis to be due to gonorrhea. It seemed much more likely that it was due to nonspecific ...
— Pathology of Lying, Etc. • William and Mary Healy


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