Causing, or tending to cause, breaking or rupture; characterized by rupture. Now rare.

Cracking, fissuring.

That breaks, in various senses (chiefly intransitive) of the verb.

That chaps or breaks in chinks or clefts.

Breaking, bursting.

That bursts asunder.

That snaps or breaks suddenly.

Of or pertaining to the disruption or breaking up (of organic structures).