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/

rupture (countable and uncountable, plural ruptures)

1. A burst, split, or break.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) E. Everett

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ʁyp.tyʁ/

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• Rhymes: -yʁ

rupture f (plural ruptures)

1. breakup, rupture

ruptūre

1. vocative masculine singular of ruptūrus