Rupture

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring. Arbuthnot. Hatch from the egg, that soon, Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. Milton.

2. Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture. He knew that policy would desincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family. E. Everett.

3. Hernia. See Hernia.

4. A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion. Modulus of rupture. (Engin.) See under Modulus.

Synonyms: Fracture; breach; break; burst; disruption; dissolution. See Fracture.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel.

2. To produce a hernia in.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To suffer a breach or disruption.