I. noun
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A pipeline rupture halted supplies of natural gas.
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Terrorist attacks led to the rupture of relations between the two countries.
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But an inquest heard that the rupture in the blood vessel was not caused by the operation.
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But the administration clearly wants to avoid a rupture .
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I wear the wound of this rupture from Hoboken as a pearl, for ornamentation.
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Lack of awareness of late presentation of traumatic rupture of the diaphragm in children may result in a delay in diagnosis.
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Such a thorough rupture in relations might accurately be called the Eastern Airlines Syndrome.
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The rupture of the pressure dome had started the structural failures leading to the accident.
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The subsequent events that lead to the rupture of these abnormal vessels are unclear.
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What has happened is a major rupture in the social system, felt everywhere.
II. verb
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A stroke is often caused when a blood vessel in the brain ruptures.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An explosion of sound ruptured the moment.
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But experts predict that a landslide would rupture chlorine tanks.
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If a blood vessel in your leg were to rupture , the leg would just swell up.
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In these accidents the air-bag punch-out forces caused a ruptured aorta, rib fractures, severe myocardial contusions, etc.
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Or fighting through the waters of a ruptured bulkhead to close the breach with his own body.
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Their stories appear to rupture time, bringing them within a hair's breadth of one another.
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They gasped for breath, struggled against debilitating weakness, and when the blood vessels around their brains ruptured, they died.
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Though my stomach is ruptured like a crushed tube of tomato puree, I manage to hear some of the words.