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RUPTURE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of making a sudden noisy break

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("rupture" is a kind of...):

break; breakage; breaking (the act of breaking something)

Derivation:

rupture (separate or cause to separate abruptly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

Example:

they hoped to avoid a break in relations

Synonyms:

breach; break; falling out; rift; rupture; severance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("rupture" is a kind of...):

breakup; detachment; separation (coming apart)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rupture"):

schism (the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences)

Sense 3

Meaning:

State of being torn or burst open

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("rupture" is a kind of...):

harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rupture"):

hernia; herniation (rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes)

herniated disc; ruptured intervertebral disc; slipped disc (a painful rupture of the fibrocartilage of the disc between spinal vertebrae; occurs most often in the lumbar region)

Derivation:

rupture (separate or cause to separate abruptly)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Separate or cause to separate abruptly

Example:

tear the paper

Synonyms:

bust; rupture; snap; tear

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "rupture" is one way to...):

disunite; divide; part; separate (force, take, or pull apart)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rupture"):

lacerate (cut or tear irregularly)

pull; rend; rip; rive (tear or be torn violently)

rip up; shred; tear up (tear into shreds)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

The ropes rupture

Derivation:

rupture (the act of making a sudden noisy break)

rupture (state of being torn or burst open)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A disorder characterized by a rupture in the wall of the esophagus.

(Esophageal Perforation, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

A surgical procedure by which tissue or an organ (usually containing a tumor) is removed without rupture from a specific anatomic site.

(Enucleation, NCI Thesaurus)

Rupture of the cysts may lead to shock.

(Echinococcosis, NCI Thesaurus)

A rupture in the wall of the extrahepatic or intrahepatic bile duct due to traumatic or pathologic processes.

(Bile Duct Perforation, NCI Thesaurus)

A rupture in the bladder wall due to traumatic or pathologic processes.

(Bladder Perforation, NCI Thesaurus)

In honest words, her money was necessary to me, and in a situation like mine, any thing was to be done to prevent a rupture.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A disorder characterized by a rupture in the colonic wall.

(Colonic Perforation, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

A rupture in the colonic wall due to traumatic or pathologic processes.

(Colonic Perforation, NCI Thesaurus)

The cysts may rupture, causing pain, redness and light sensitivity.

(Meesmann Corneal Dystrophy, NCI Thesaurus)

White fibrous bodies that form as a result of ruptured follicles in the ovary.

(Corpora Albicantia, NCI Thesaurus)