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 Definitions of Rupture  [ˈrʌp tʃər]  

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Definition of 'Rupture' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) rupture
the act of breaking.

2.  rupture
the state of being broken.

3.  rupture
a breach of harmonious or peaceful relations.

4.  rupture
hernia, esp. abdominal hernia.

5. (v.t.) rupture
to break or burst.

6.  rupture
to cause a breach of.

7. (v.i.) rupture
to suffer a break or rupture.

Etymology:  (1475–85; < L ruptūra <rupt(us), ptp. of rumpere to break)

Definition of 'Rupture' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) rupture
state of being torn or burst open

2. (noun) rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out
a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
"they hoped to avoid a break in relations"

3. (verb) rupture
the act of making a sudden noisy break

4. (verb) tear, rupture, snap, bust
separate or cause to separate abruptly
"The rope snapped"; "tear the paper"


Definition of 'Rupture' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Rupture
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

2. (noun) Rupture
breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture

3. (noun) Rupture
hernia. See Hernia

4. (noun) Rupture
a bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion

5. (verb) Rupture
to part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel

6. (verb) Rupture
to produce a hernia in

7. (verb) Rupture
to suffer a breach or disruption


Definition of 'Rupture' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  Rupture
Forcible or traumatic tear or break of an organ or other soft part of the body.


Translation of 'Rupture' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a tearing or breaking.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: skeur Arabic flag Arabic: تَمَزُّق، تَصَدُّع Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: разкъсване
Brazilian flag Brazilian: ruptura Czech flag Czech: trhlina, roztržka, zlomen German flag German: der Bruch
Danish flag Danish: sprængning; brud Greek flag Greek: ρήξη Spanish flag Spanish: ruptura, quebradura; hern
Estonian flag Estonian: rebend Farsi flag Farsi: پارگی؛ شکاف Finnish flag Finnish: repeämä
French flag French: rupture; hernie Hebrew flag Hebrew: קֶרַע Hindi flag Hindi: फटन, फूटन भाग
Croatian flag Croatian: prolom, prekid Hungarian flag Hungarian: törés; repedés Indonesian flag Indonesian: robekan
Icelandic flag Icelandic: rifa, sprunga Italian flag Italian: rottura; ernia Japanese flag Japanese: 破裂
Korean flag Korean: 파열 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: nutraukimas, skilimas Latvian flag Latvian: plīsums; pārrāvums
Malay flag Malay: pecahan Dutch flag Dutch: breuk, scheur Norwegian flag Norwegian: revne, brist, sprekk
Polish flag Polish: pęknięcie, przerwanie Persian flag Persian: پارگی؛ شکاف Pashto flag Pashto: شلیدل، سوری
Portuguese flag Portuguese: ruptura Romanian flag Romanian: ruptură; hernie Russian flag Russian: разрыв; перелом
Slovak flag Slovak: roztržka; natrhnutie Slovenian flag Slovenian: prelom Serbian flag Serbian: cepanje
Swedish flag Swedish: bristning, ruptur, rämna, Thai flag Thai: แตกออก Turkish flag Turkish: patlama, yırtılma
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 撕裂,斷裂 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: перелом; розрив Urdu flag Urdu: ٹوٹ جانے یا پھٹ جانے کا ع
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: sự gẫy; sự vỡ Chinese flag Chinese: 破裂,断裂

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