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”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌptʃə/

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rupture (countable and uncountable, plural ruptures)

1. A burst, split, or break.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:

     Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed / Their callow young.

2. A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
   • 1825, Edward Everett, Claims of the United States on Naples and Holland

     He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.

   • 1761, The Modern Part of an Universal History

     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.

3. (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
4. (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.

rupture (third-person singular simple present ruptures, present participle rupturing, simple past and past participle ruptured)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
2. (botany, intransitive) To dehisce irregularly.

• Rupture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• rupture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• rupture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• rupture at OneLook Dictionary Search

Category:English terms derived from the PIE root *Hrewp-

Borrowed from Latin ruptūra. Doublet of roture.

• IPA^(key): /ʁyp.tyʁ/

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• Rhymes: -yʁ

rupture f (plural ruptures)

1. breakup, rupture

This word almost always unambiguously means "breakup" when used absolutely. For other senses, it needs a complement.

• en rupture de ban
• en rupture de stock

rupture

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• “rupture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

ruptūre

1. vocative masculine singular of ruptūrus