Rupture
The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring.
Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture.
Hernia. See Hernia.
A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion.
To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel.
To produce a hernia in.
To suffer a breach or disruption.
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Rupture Quotations
During this period, Japan's peaceful commercial relations were successively obstructed, primarily by the American rupture of commercial relations, and this was a grave threat to the survival of Japan.
Hideki Tojo
I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a rupture with us by the artifices of the French, their own weakness and the influence which the French Missionary Priests have over them.
William Shirley
Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.
Shoshana Zuboff
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Rupture Translations
rupture in French is rupture, se rompre, cassure
rupture in German is Bruch, zerbrechen, brechen
rupture in Italian is frantumare, frattura
rupture in Spanish is rotura, quebradura, tronzar, ruptura
rupture in Swedish is bristning, brock, brista, brott
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