RUPTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rupture mean? 

• RUPTURE (noun)
  The noun RUPTURE has 3 senses:

1. state of being torn or burst open

2. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

3. the act of making a sudden noisy break

  Familiarity information: RUPTURE used as a noun is uncommon.

• RUPTURE (verb)
  The verb RUPTURE has 1 sense:

1. separate or cause to separate abruptly

  Familiarity information: RUPTURE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUPTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

State of being torn or burst open

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("rupture" is a kind of...):

harm; hurt; injury; trauma (any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rupture"):

hernia; herniation (rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes)

herniated disc; ruptured intervertebral disc; slipped disc (a painful rupture of the fibrocartilage of the disc between spinal vertebrae; occurs most often in the lumbar region)

Derivation:

rupture (separate or cause to separate abruptly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

breach; break; falling out; rift; rupture; severance

Context example:

they hoped to avoid a break in relations

Hypernyms ("rupture" is a kind of...):

breakup; detachment; separation (coming apart)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rupture"):

schism (the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of making a sudden noisy break

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("rupture" is a kind of...):

break; breakage; breaking (the act of breaking something)

Derivation:

rupture (separate or cause to separate abruptly)

• RUPTURE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rupture    ... he / she / it ruptures   
Past simple: ruptured   
Past participle: ruptured   
-ing form: rupturing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Separate or cause to separate abruptly

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bust; rupture; snap; tear

Context example:

tear the paper

Hypernyms (to "rupture" is one way to...):

disunite; divide; part; separate (force, take, or pull apart)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rupture"):

lacerate (cut or tear irregularly)

pull; rend; rip; rive (tear or be torn violently)

rip up; shred; tear up (tear into shreds)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

The ropes rupture

Derivation:

rupture (the act of making a sudden noisy break)

rupture (state of being torn or burst open)

 Context examples 

Any cell death process resulting from rupture of cell membranes and loss of cytoplasm.

(Cytolytic Process, NCI Thesaurus)

A rupture in the duodenal wall due to traumatic or pathologic processes.

(Duodenal Perforation, NCI Thesaurus)

A clinical diagnosis presenting with painless cervical dilatation and spontaneous mid-trimester birth in recurrent pregnancies in the absence of spontaneous membrane rupture, bleeding or clinical chorioamnionitis.

(Cervical Insufficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

It is often asymptomatic but rarely it may present with abdominal pain or abdominal enlargement due to rupture or torsion.

(Borderline Ovarian Serous Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by a rupture in the wall of the extrahepatic or intrahepatic bile duct.

(Bile Duct Perforation, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

A disorder characterized by a rupture in the bladder wall.

(Bladder Perforation, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

A disorder characterized by a rupture in the duodenal wall.

(Duodenal Perforation, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Duration from rupture of membranes to birth (in hours and minutes).

(Duration of Rupture of Membrane, NCI Thesaurus)

A rupture of the fallopian tube wall due to tubal pregnancy, or other traumatic or pathologic processes.

(Fallopian Tube Perforation, NCI Thesaurus)

A finding of rupture of the fallopian tube wall.

(Fallopian Tube Perforation, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)