Rupture

Word RUPTURE
Character 7
Hyphenation rup ture
Pronunciations /ˈɹʌptʃə/

Definitions and meanings of "Rupture"

What do we mean by rupture?

An instance of breaking open or bursting. noun

A break in friendly relations. noun

A hernia, especially of the groin or intestines. noun

A tear in an organ or tissue. noun

To cause to undergo or suffer a rupture. intransitive verb

To undergo or suffer a rupture. intransitive verb

To break; burst; part by violence: as, to rupture a blood-vessel.

To affect with or cause to suffer from rupture or hernia.

To cause a break or severance of: as, to rupture friendly relations.

To suffer a break or rupture; break.

In botany, specifically, to dehisce irregularly; dehisce in a ruptile manner.

In mech.: The splitting or tearing of a boiler or tank from internal pressure or stress, as distinguished from an explosion in which it flies into pieces. noun

A breakage or tearing apart by tensile stress in excess of the resisting capacity of the piece. noun

To tear apart; open along a line or at one point, without destroying the whole structure: said of boilers or tanks, as distinguished from explode.

The act of breaking or bursting; the state of being broken or violently parted: as, a rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber. noun

In pathology, hernia, especially abdominal hernia. noun

A breach of peace or concord, either between individuals or between nations; open hostility or war between nations; a quarrel. noun

Synonyms Breach, etc. See fracture. noun

To suffer a breach or disruption. intransitive verb

A burst, split, or break.

A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.

A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.

A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Rupture

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The word "rupture" in example sentences

Yes - there are risks (previous scar rupture is a 0.1 – 0.5% risk) and during labour, the decision to go to a second c-section might still have to be made. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And for him, such a rupture is simply not an issue. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The left-right religious rupture is not the only divisive element within religious zionism. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Given the severe contrasting nature of landscapes in Mexico, it is inevitable that this sense of rupture translates into a fractured sense of self. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The first rupture is that between itself as a theory and its ultimate objects, placed beyond the reach of the theory itself or any possible conception, and, the second, between this scheme and the possible constitution of nature, mind, or culture, which defines the first rupture as a theoretical idealization. ❋ Unknown (2005)

There was a nice study published by Jerome Strauss's group [in October's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences] that showed that African-American women who have a preterm rupture of the membranes are more likely to have a genetic variant that's causative for that. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The majority of PTB (~75%) results from spontaneous contractions often associated with infection, prelabor preterm rupture of the membranes and unknown causes ❋ Kelli K. Ryckman Et Al. (2010)

Multiple gestation, preterm rupture of membranes, and comorbidity were not independent risk factors for adverse drug reactions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fetal complications Spontaneous abortion  premature delivery (premature preterm rupture of  the membrane) Unexplained intrauterine fetal demise and stillbirth  Macrosomia with traumatic delivery such as  cesarean section and shoulder dystocia Delayed organ maturity ❋ Unknown (2009)

Though he has, perhaps understandably, soft-peddled during the campaign, his promise of rupture is both bold and correct, signalling an end to the 35-hour week, reductions in personal and corporate taxation, and beginning the essential task of setting France’s universities free of stifling state control. ❋ Stephen Tall (2007)

Given their scale, it could require some years of self-improvement before Sarkozy expunges from the record his previous offences against culture, some of them presumably designed to emphasise that his famous "rupture" from the French past was as much cultural, as in not being cultured like his predecessors, as it was political. ❋ Unknown (2011)

(Howe and his fellow New York Critics always felt that this rupture was a mortal one, as most of them had first become prominent literary critics through their championing of high modernism.) ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though not nearly as serious, the fire recalled the rupture of a steam pipe beneath a street on the other side of Manhattan in 2007. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But I do not fear the word rupturerupture with habits of thought, with ideas, with behaviors of the past that have prevented us from advancing, from grasping the future between our two arms … I want rupture with intellectual conformity … I want rupture with halfheartedness, I want rupture with conservatism, I want rupture with immobility. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Calling the rupture a little messy, Ryan chalked it up to some mix of practical and personal. ❋ Mark Caro (2009)

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