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