- rupture
- [[t]rʌ̱ptʃə(r)[/t]]
ruptures, rupturing, ruptured1) N-COUNT A rupture is a severe injury in which an internal part of your body tears or bursts open, especially the part between the bowels and the abdomen.2) V-ERG If a person or animal ruptures a part of their body or if it ruptures, it tears or bursts open.
His stomach might rupture from all the acid...
[V n] Whilst playing badminton, I ruptured my Achilles tendon.
[V-ed] ...a ruptured appendix.
3) VERB If you rupture yourself, you rupture a part of your body, usually because you have lifted something heavy.[V pron-refl] He ruptured himself playing football.
4) V-ERG If an object ruptures or if something ruptures it, it bursts open.Certain truck gasoline tanks can rupture and burn in a collision...
[V n] Sloshing liquids can rupture the walls of their containers.
Syn:5) N-COUNT: usu with supp If there is a rupture between people, relations between them get much worse or end completely.The incidents have not yet caused a major rupture in the political ties between countries.
...a rupture of the family unit.
6) VERB If someone or something ruptures relations between people, they damage them, causing them to become worse or to end.[V n] Brutal clashes in Berlin between squatters and police yesterday ruptured the city's governing coalition between Social Democrats and Greens.
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English dictionary. 2008.
