ruption

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌpʃən/
• Rhymes: -ʌpʃən

Noun

ruption (plural ruptions)

1. A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.
   • 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:

     by ruption or apertion

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ruption”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Puriton, uniport