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”). Doublet of roture.

• (non-rhotic)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌpt͡ʃəː/, [ˈɹʷʌ̹pt͡ʃəː]

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• (rhotic)
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌpt͡ʃɚ/, [ˈɹʷʌ̈pt͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈɹʷʌ̈pt͡ʃɹ̩]
• Rhymes: -ʌptʃə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: rup‧ture

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.

rupture (third-person singular simple present ruptures, present participle rupturing, simple past and past participle ruptured)

1. (ambitransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
   • 2007 February 18, Jake Mooney, “A Case of the Shivers”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 26 November 2022:

     The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.

2. (botany, intransitive) To dehisce irregularly.

• Rupture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “rupture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “rupture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “rupture”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Borrowed from Latin ruptūra. Doublet of roture.

• IPA^(key): /ʁyp.tyʁ/

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• Rhymes: -yʁ

rupture f (plural ruptures)

1. breakup, rupture

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

• en rupture de ban
• en rupture de stock

rupture

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

• “rupture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

ruptūre

1. vocative masculine singular of ruptūrus