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Rupture
RUP'TURE, n. [L. ruptus, rumpo, to break.]
1. The act of breaking or bursting; the state of being broken or violently parted; as the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber.
2. Hernia; a preternatural protrusion of the contents of the abdomen.
3. Breach of peace or concord, either between individuals or nations; between nations, open hostility or war. We say, the parties or nations have come to an open rupture.
He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
RUP'TURE, v.t. To break; to burst; to part by violence; as, to rupture a blood vessel.
RUP'TURE, v.i. To suffer a breach of disruption.
rupture appears in definitions for these words:
Abrupt Amma Aneurism Breach Broken-bellied Bubonocele Burst Burstenness Bursting Cystocele Disrupture Enterocele Enteromphalos Epiploce Exomphalos Extravasation Fracture Gastrocele Hemorrhagy Hernia Honorably Hydrenterocele Hypogastrocele Hysterocele Omphalocele Oscheocele Permeable Permeate Pliability Pliable Rag Retard Rupture Sarcocele Snap Sore Strangulated Truss
Abrupt Amma Aneurism Breach Broken-bellied Bubonocele Burst Burstenness Bursting Cystocele Disrupture Enterocele Enteromphalos Epiploce Exomphalos Extravasation Fracture Gastrocele Hemorrhagy Hernia Honorably Hydrenterocele Hypogastrocele Hysterocele Omphalocele Oscheocele Permeable Permeate Pliability Pliable Rag Retard Rupture Sarcocele Snap Sore Strangulated Truss
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