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rupture

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Etymology

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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”).

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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], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
      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.

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Verb

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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.

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin ruptūra. Doublet of roture.

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rupture f (plural ruptures)

  1. breakup, rupture

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

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Verb

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rupture

  1. inflection of rupturer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Latin

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Participle

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ruptūre

  1. vocative masculine singular of ruptūrus
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