RUPTURE


Meaning of RUPTURE in English

I. noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A pipeline rupture halted supplies of natural gas.

Terrorist attacks led to the rupture of relations between the two countries.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But an inquest heard that the rupture in the blood vessel was not caused by the operation.

But the administration clearly wants to avoid a rupture .

I wear the wound of this rupture from Hoboken as a pearl, for ornamentation.

Lack of awareness of late presentation of traumatic rupture of the diaphragm in children may result in a delay in diagnosis.

Such a thorough rupture in relations might accurately be called the Eastern Airlines Syndrome.

The rupture of the pressure dome had started the structural failures leading to the accident.

The subsequent events that lead to the rupture of these abnormal vessels are unclear.

What has happened is a major rupture in the social system, felt everywhere.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A stroke is often caused when a blood vessel in the brain ruptures.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

An explosion of sound ruptured the moment.

But experts predict that a landslide would rupture chlorine tanks.

If a blood vessel in your leg were to rupture , the leg would just swell up.

In these accidents the air-bag punch-out forces caused a ruptured aorta, rib fractures, severe myocardial contusions, etc.

Or fighting through the waters of a ruptured bulkhead to close the breach with his own body.

Their stories appear to rupture time, bringing them within a hair's breadth of one another.

They gasped for breath, struggled against debilitating weakness, and when the blood vessels around their brains ruptured, they died.

Though my stomach is ruptured like a crushed tube of tomato puree, I manage to hear some of the words.

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