Rupture
['rʌptʃə] or ['rʌptʃɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of making a sudden noisy break.
(noun.) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); 'they hoped to avoid a break in relations'.
(noun.) state of being torn or burst open.
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Definition
(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.
(n.) Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture.
(n.) Hernia. See Hernia.
(n.) A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion.
(v. t.) To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel.
(v. t.) To produce a hernia in.
(v. i.) To suffer a breach or disruption.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Breach, fracture, disruption.[2]. Quarrel, feud, altercation, squabble, contention, hostility.[3]. Hernia.
v. a. Break, burst.
Typist: Marietta
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Breaking, bursting, tearing, laceration, partition, disruption, breach, dissolution,fracture, break, severance, disseverance, discerption, disorganization,separation, dilaceration, dismemberment
ANT:Union, uniting, healing, fusion, amalgamation, coalition, suture, junction,reunion
Checker: Lola
Definition
n. the act of breaking or bursting: the state of being broken: a breach of the peace: hernia (q.v.) esp. abdominal.—v.t. to break or burst: to part by violence.—v.i. to suffer a breach: (bot.) to dehisce irregularly.—adj. Rup′tile (bot.) dehiscent by an irregular splitting of the walls.—n. Rup′tion a breach.—adj. Rup′tive.—n. Rup′tūary a member of the plebeian class.
Editor: Randolph
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are ruptured, denotes you will have physical disorders or disagreeable contentions. If it be others you see in this condition, you will be in danger of irreconcilable quarrels.
Typist: Susan
Examples
- In honest words, her money was necessary to me, and in a situation like mine, any thing was to be done to prevent a rupture. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The unequalized internal pressure forces the blood to the surface of the body and causes rupture of blood vessels and other physical difficulties. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Because the captain doctor knew I had this rupture. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- He fulfilled it so vigorously that ere long he came to a decisive rupture with his old Tory friend the rector. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The apologists of business also justified a rupture with human decencies. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I helped the soldier with the rupture up on the seat with us. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She wept over the rupture, yet what was the good of making it up! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He had ruptured a blood-vessel, and he was a dead man before his son could raise him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The pressure of the water is so great at the bottom of the ocean that were the eyes large they would be ruptured. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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