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ruption

/ˈɹʌpʃən/

ruption noun: a breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.

Noun

ruption (plural ruptions)

  1. A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.
    • The plenitude of vessels or plethora causes an extravasion of blood, by ruption or apertion1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC
    • You can't cure it, for it's a ruption of an air vessel , and you can't get at it to sew it up.1859, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Nature and Human Nature, page 218
  2. (rare) A commotion.
    • "Would you? You might insist long long enough before you would get that done. I fancy," replied Peter Dyer, who was much inclined to assist in a "ruption," as he termed it, in the morning, as he had been in the night before.1846, Ellen Pickering ·, Cousin Hinton, Or, Friend Or Foe, page 42
    • But you know the square and I had a kind of a ruption about that Mr. Quickerrow; he don't come here, and so I don't come to your house.1871, Elija Kellogg, “The Sophomores of Radcliffe”, in Our Boys and Girls, volume 9, number 216, page 453

ruption meaning in Tamil

ruption in Tamil

முறிவு

Examples of ruption in a sentence

  • Still there was a possibility of ectopic gestation with a ruption of tube downward, death of ovum, and a disintergration of this foreign growth.1896, Ira C. Barnes, “Two Cases of Simulated Pregnancy”, in The Kansas City Medical Index-lancet, volume 17, page 225:
  • The ruption of teeth in the healthy child is a physiological process without disturbance,1914, New International Encyclopedia - Volume 5, page 184:
  • The tricks they play on each other are amusing, and a ruption occurs whenever they meet.1908, Collection of Plays Ca. 1870-1914, volume 17, page 9:

Forms of ruption

pluralruptions

Origin of ruption

Borrowed from Latin ruptio, from rumpere, ruptum (“to break”).

Words that rhyme with ruption

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Questions about ruption

What does ruption mean?
Ruption means a breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.
What is ruption in Tamil?
Ruption in Tamil is முறிவு. See Ruption meaning in Tamil.
How do you use ruption in a sentence?
Still there was a possibility of ectopic gestation with a ruption of tube downward, death of ovum, and a disintergration of this foreign growth.
What part of speech is ruption?
Ruption is a noun.
How do you pronounce ruption?
Ruption is pronounced /ˈɹʌpʃən/.
What is the plural of ruption?
The plural of ruption is ruptions.

Words near ruption in the dictionary

  1. Ruppert–Prakash reagent
  2. Ruppes
  3. Rupphire
  4. RUPPs
  5. ruptile
  6. ruption
  7. ruptions
  8. ruptive
  9. ruptuaries
  10. ruptuary
  11. rupturable

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