transcription, транскрипция: [ rʌptʃə(r) ]
( ruptures, rupturing, ruptured)
1.
A rupture is a severe injury in which an internal part of your body tears or bursts open, especially the part between the bowels and the abdomen.
N-COUNT
2.
If a person or animal ruptures a part of their body or if it ruptures , it tears or bursts open.
His stomach might rupture from all the acid...
Whilst playing badminton, I ruptured my Achilles tendon.
...a ruptured appendix.
VERB : V , V n , V-ed
3.
If you rupture yourself , you rupture a part of your body, usually because you have lifted something heavy.
He ruptured himself playing football.
VERB : V pron-refl
4.
If an object ruptures or if something ruptures it, it bursts open.
Certain truck gasoline tanks can rupture and burn in a collision...
Sloshing liquids can rupture the walls of their containers.
= burst
VERB : V , V n
5.
If there is a rupture between people, relations between them get much worse or end completely.
The incidents have not yet caused a major rupture in the political ties between countries.
N-COUNT : usu with supp
6.
If someone or something ruptures relations between people, they damage them, causing them to become worse or to end.
The incident ruptures a recent and fragile cease-fire.
VERB : V n