rupture
Syllables: rup·ture/ˈɹʌpt͡ʃəː/US/ˈɹʌpt͡ʃɚ/
rupture noun: a burst, split, or break.
Noun
rupture (countable and uncountable, plural ruptures)
- A burst, split, or break.
- Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed / Their callow young.1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
- A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
- Thus a war was kindled with Lubec; Denmark took part with the king's enemies, and made use of a frivolous pretence, which demonstrated the inclination of his Danish majesty to come to a rupture.1761, The Modern Part of an Universal History
- He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.1825, Edward Everett, Claims of the United States on Naples and Holland
- 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.
Verb
rupture (third-person singular simple present ruptures, present participle rupturing, simple past and past participle ruptured)
- To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
- The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.2007 February 18, Jake Mooney, “A Case of the Shivers”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022
- To dehisce irregularly.
rupture meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
rupture in Hindi
- burst or split
- दरार darār
rupture in Tamil
- தகர்வு, முறிவு, கிழிபடுதல், பீறல், சிதைவு, நொறிவு
rupture in Urdu
- چخ, خلل
rupture in Bengali
- ফাটল, ছিঁড়ে যাওয়া, সম্পর্কের বিচ্ছেদ
More languagesFewer languages
- rupture in Malayalam
- വിള്ളൽ viḷḷal
- rupture in Kannada
- ಬಟ್ಟಿ, ಒಡಕು, ಬಿರುಕು
- rupture in Arabic
- تَمَزُّق tamazzuq
- rupture in Indonesian
- ruptur
Examples of rupture in a sentence
- I near ruptured myself trying to move the piano.
- A rupture would represent a death knell for the West and would harm the US worker.
- Another example of autothysis, or defensive suicidal rupturing, can be found in Neocapritermes taracua.
Forms of rupture
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ruptures |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | ruptures |
| present participle | rupturing |
| past participle | ruptured |
| past | ruptured |
Origin of rupture
Borrowed from Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin ruptūra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin ruptūra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from the participle stem of rumpere (“to break, burst”). Doublet of roture.
Words formed from rupture
Phrases with rupture
Questions about rupture
- What does rupture mean?
- Rupture means a burst, split, or break.
- What is rupture in Hindi?
- Rupture in Hindi is दरार (darār). See Rupture meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is rupture?
- Rupture can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce rupture?
- Rupture is pronounced /ˈɹʌpt͡ʃəː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of rupture?
- The plural of rupture is ruptures.
Words near rupture in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rupture (page history and authors); rupture (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rupture (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rupture (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); വിള്ളൽ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); rupture (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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