Dictionary Definition
rupture
Noun
1 state of being torn or burst open
2 a personal or social separation (as between
opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
[syn: breach, break, severance, rift, falling
out]
3 the act of making a sudden noisy break v :
separate or cause to separate abruptly; "The rope snapped"; "tear
the paper" [syn: tear,
snap, bust]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
Translations
social break
Verb
- transitive intransitive To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
Translations
to burst, break through, or split, as under
pressure
- Czech: prasknout
See also
Extensive Definition
The term rupture describes various sorts of
breaking in a number of fields.
- Rupture (engineering), a failure mode
- Steam rupture, a rupture in a nuclear power plant (such as pressurized water reactors and boiling water reactors) when the temperature of the nuclear reactor reaches a certain level too quickly
- Rupture of membranes, a term used during pregnancy of the reproductive female to describe a rupture of membranes
- A premature rupture of membranes (PROM), a rupture that occurs prior to labour in childbirth
rupture in French: Rupture
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abrade,
abrasion, abysm, abyss, alienation, arroyo, bark, blemish, bloody, box canyon, breach, breach of friendship,
break, break in, break
into, break open, break through, break up, breakage, breaking, breaking up, burn, burst, burst in, bursting, bust, bust in, canyon, cave in, cavity, chafe, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, chip, claw, cleavage, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, come apart, come unstuck,
concussion, coulee, couloir, crack, crackle, cranny, craze, crevasse, crevice, cut, cut apart, cwm, defile, dell, detachment, dike, disaffection, disfavor, disintegrate, disjoin, disrupt, disruption, dissect, dissolution, disunion, disunite, disunity, ditch, divergence, divide, dividedness, division, divorce, divorcement, donga, draw, estrangement, excavation, exfoliate, fall to pieces,
falling-out, fault,
fissure, flash burn,
flaw, flume, force open, fracture, fray, frazzle, fret, furrow, gall, gap, gape, gash, give away, give way, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hole, hurt, incise, incision, injure, injury, joint, kloof, lacerate, laceration, leak, lesion, maim, make mincemeat of, maul, moat, mortal wound, mutilate, mutilation, notch, nullah, open, open rupture, opening, part, parting, partition, pass, passage, pierce, prize open, puncture, ravine, recall of ambassadors,
rend, rent, rift, rime, rip, rive, run, savage, scald, scale, schism, scissure, scorch, scotch, scrape, scratch, scuff, seam, second-degree burn, separate, separation, sever, severance, skin, slash, slice, slit, slot, snap, sore, splinter, split, split open, split up,
split-up, splitting,
sprain, spring a leak,
stab, stab wound, start, stick, stove in, strain, sunder, tear, tear open, third-degree burn,
trauma, traumatize, trench, valley, void, wadi, wound, wounds immedicable,
wrench