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ruptions

ruptions is the plural of ruption.

Meaning of ruption

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
  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

Questions about ruptions

What is ruptions the plural of?
Ruptions is the plural of ruption.

Words near ruptions in the dictionary

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

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