RUPTURE

[verb] - to burst or break, or cause this to happenHis appendix ruptured and he had to be rushed to hospital. [I]The pipes are easily ruptured at high pressure. [T](figurative) This news has ruptured the delicate peace between the enemy parties. [T]If you rupture yourself, you cause the wall which keeps your stomach and your bowels from getting outside the abdomen to break apart, usually by lifting something too heavy.