rupturen.
/ˈrʌptʃə/, U.S. /ˈrəp(t)ʃər/ 1.
a. A break, tear, or split in a surface or substance, esp. the skin or other tissue. Also in figurative context.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > chap or crack
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?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 70v In þo [wounds] forsoþ þat comeþ to þe myryng, if it be forsoþ alone rupture [?c1425 Paris kyttinge; L. ruptura], i. scissure, & not quassature, it is to vse þe forsaid rasourez.
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 129, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Rupture He schal enuiroun alle þe rupture þer wiþ.
?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. R.iii Agaynst the chopping or ruptures. The Causes. Muche goynge in cold wyndes and drynesse.
1607 S. Rowlands Famous Hist. Guy of Warwicke (Hunterian Club) 78 He lent him such a powerful stroke It made wide ruptures in the Giant's flesh.
1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. ii. 28 From hence it appeareth plainly..who are Schismatiques; whosoever doth uncharitably make ruptures in the mystical body of Christ.
1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks i. iii. 34 The Pith,..as the Plant grows up,..hath divers openings or Ruptures made in it.
1765 W. Watson in Philos. Trans. 1764 (Royal Soc.) 54 244 As..injuries to the lungs are not easily removed, when once a rupture is made, every fit of coughing extravasates more air.
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 122/2 One of these worms, when examined microscopically, presented a rupture in the middle of its body.
1889 Med. Summary 11 10/1 The rupture in the skin was about 1¼ inches long.
1938 H. E. Desch Timber xi. 133 Serious splits are often called ‘shakes’... These are of several types, e.g., ring-shake where the separation follows a growth ring, star-shake where the ruptures radiate outward from the pith.
1983 P. Gzowski Unbroken Line i. 19 The rupture in the tendon had almost certainly healed, but inflammation in the sheath around it was still generating fluid.
2000 Drug & Alcohol Dependence 58 228/2 The combination of lesions in the mouth and possible skin ruptures on the partner's genitalia creates an even greater risk for HIV transmission.
b. A break in the surface or fabric of the earth, as a ravine, gorge, or rift; esp. one formed in an earthquake or other upheaval.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > chasm or cleft
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c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica i. 15 Grete multitude of myse out of syssures & ruptures of the erthe in many places was engendrid.
1555 R. Eden tr. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdés Summarie Gen. Hist. W. Indies in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 177 In the riuers or ruptures or breaches of waters [Sp. en el rio o quebrada de agua].
1594 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse sig. E4v What..maleuolent Conspiring power..Hath made the concaue of the earth vnclose, And shut in ruptures louely Radagon?
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Zech. xiv. 4 The mount of oliues shal be clouen..with a stiepe rupture exceding great.
1690 T. Burnet Theory of Earth iii. 50 At this chasm or rupture we suppose the fire wou'd gush out.
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 140 There is a very deep rupture in the side of Libanus.
1789 J. Williams Nat. Hist. Mineral Kingdom II. iii. 67 The yet humid and tender strata would bend and break..which has caused the various declivities, ruptures and other interruptions of the regularity.
1818 Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 1 288 They saw no rupture in the earth, although they came within two or three rods of the spot, and state the water to have been two feet deep.
1884 Nature 13 Nov. 30/1 The general trend of all these foldings and ruptures is from north-north-east to south-south-west.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXIII. 775 The Lower Chalk formation..contains many ruptures and dislocations.
1964 Pop. Mech. July 77/1 The rupture extended for at least 100 miles and the shake was felt as far away as Mexico.
2004 Backpacker Aug. 80/1 The rupture was opened during an 1857 earthquake.
2. Medicine. Hernia, esp. in the inguinal region (groin); an instance of this.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > [noun] > hernia or rupture
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sliding hernia1910
incisional hernia1912
Morgagni hernia1958
?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 86 (MED) Of rupture in þe grynde.
?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 501 Rupture or brestynge..is an hernyal swellynge in þe whiche þe gutte or zirbus is had out of his place, and it is gone oute from þe inwardes to þe flesche of myrac, propurly in the dyndyme or in þe codde.
1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 49 b Than shal ensue to hym that exerciseth, no peryll of obstruction or rupture.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xv. 69 The holding of ones breath vnaduisedly & with to much strayning causeth ruptures.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 79 Which inward membrane if it be broken, and the externall dilated,..causeth the one kinde of rupture or the other.
1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) 126 Who said, that he had been troubled with a Rupture for ten or eleven years.
1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem i. 3 She cures Rheumatisms, Ruptures, and broken Shins in Men.
1730 Dr. Allen's Synopsis Medicinæ II. x. 22 Proptosis, or Staphyloma, is a real Rupture of the Eye, and ought to be called by that name, for the Tunica Cornea being broke by any Accident, the Uvea thrusts itself forwards, making a Tumour or Rupture.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xviii. 61 Two fine young officers arrived, unfit for service by ruptures.
1818 G. Canning Speech Indemnity Bill in Speeches (1838) VI. 33 That he had been cured of a rupture at the public expense.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XI. 752/2 Rupture is either congenital or acquired.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1291 The strain of hard work and the overgrowth of parts may cause rupture or hernia of the abdominal wall, followed by dangerous protrusion.
1958 First Aid (St. John Ambulance Assoc.) ix. 96 The so-called ‘strain in the groin’ (more correctly referred to as a rupture or hernia) is quite a different condition.
1975 New Yorker 11 Aug. 32/1 Her husband..sustained a rupture, and..she had to schlepp him in and out of bed several times a day.
2002 R. Porter Blood & Guts vi.115 Everyday surgical work necessarily remained small-scale and fairly safe, if often pretty painful:..lancing boils, trussing-up ruptures, and so forth.
3. The action or an act of breaking, tearing, or bursting; the fact of being broken, torn, or burst.
a. With reference to a material thing.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > [noun] > bursting
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?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 38 (MED) Obtalmie..if it be yuel cured, it leueþ yuel relefez, as rupture of cornee, spottez, & tedious webbez.
1568 G. Skeyne Breue Descriptioun Pest viii. sig. C4v And albeit the aposteme..be not mature (becaus it suld be dangerous to abyde ye samyn in dreid dethe suld preueine naturall rupture of sic venome) it moist be oppinit be ane Chirurgical hand.
1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. xxxvi. 215 It's probable..your Water-course will be subject to ruptures or breaking downe of the Banks.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 419 The Egg that soon Bursting with kindly rupture forth disclos'd Thir callow young. View more context for this quotation
1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments vi. 70 A Lute-string will bear a hundred Weight without Rupture.
1739 S. Sharp Treat. Operations Surg. 137 The Rupture of the Vessels of the Brain.
1840 Amer. Repertory Arts, Sci., & Manuf. Aug. 26 I have already stated the extent of mischief that can possibly arise on the rupture of your pipes, or on their becoming red-hot from being dry.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. vi. 44 The rupture of the ice by the expansion of the air-bubbles.
1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. xiv. 582 Rupture of the diaphragm is an accident that occurs in practice, but is difficult to diagnose.
1939 E. A. Bessey Text-bk. Mycol. (new ed.) ii. 25 By the rupture or dissolution of the peridium the spores are permitted to escape.
1987 T. Forester High-tech Society (1989) iii. 72 This does not cover potential hazards such as the accidental rupture of cylinders containing toxic gases.
2006 Mother & Baby Aug. 43/2 Vaginal birth after caesarean..used to be seen as a problem due to a fear of uterine rupture.
b. figurative with reference to an immaterial or abstract thing.
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a1596 G. Peele Loue King Dauid & Fair Bethsabe (1599) sig. Fijv The aire whose rupture rings my fame.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. i. 153 If with feasting him [sc. a lord] thou breakest thy self, he will not cure thy rupture.
1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God 65 The glad Heart..to make room for such Guests, would stretch unto a Rupture.
1725 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman I. vii. 85 Nor can a man be suppos'd in the rupture of his affairs, to receive any comfort.
1862 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 70/2 The first rent would inaugurate universal rupture.
1906 W. Leighton Whisperings of Sphinx iv. 33 When decay dissolves a concrete form, Or quicker rupture strikes organic life.
1976 R. G. Kasinsky Refugees from Militarism vi. 158 For some individuals, coming to Canada meant the permanent rupture of their family life.
2002 L.-K. Sun Chinese National Char. ii. 39 Amid this epistemic change, Spencer's philosophy was also ripe for rupture.
4. † c. With into. An outbreak of hostilities. Obsolete. rare.
a. Breach or violation of a treaty, contract, etc.; the breakdown of a particular state of affairs; an instance of this. Frequently with of.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > non-observance or breach > [noun]
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1439 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) V. 389 (MED) Rather than any brech or rupture of þe trete for þe peas shold fall or be causid bi de King, he wold be content with þe..duchie ov Normandie.
1496 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 11th Rep.: App. Pt. III: MSS Corporations Southampton & King's Lynn (1887) 13 in Parl. Papers (C. 5060–II) XLVII. 1 His requeste for to have..entrecours of merchandise..is gretly to our honour seing that the ruptur and discontinuaunce therof hathe not stand by us.
a1525 ( Coventry Leet Bk. (1908) II. 475 Wherby the seid trewes & othe[r] conuencions..myght fall in vyolacion or Ruptur in any wyse.
1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 5 §1 Manifolde robberies,..ruptures of his peace & many other malfaites.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iv. xxvii. 37 Which was promis'd upon the rupture of the Treaties with Spain.
1682 J. Beale Let. 26 June in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) V. 303 O what a goodly Sight it was to see our Grandees in the open Theator laugh & grin att the rupture of theire own solemnly subscribed Parole!
1705 L. Echard Rom. Hist. III. ix. 468 But before we proceed to the Rupture of the Truce, we must look back on the Emperor.
1789 tr. J.-C. Laveaux Life Frederick II I. 407 The rupture of the public peace did not consist only in hostile acts, but also in conspiracies and alliances against another state.
1850 Times 22 May 6/2 I received this morning..two telegraphic despatches announcing the rupture of negotiations at Athens.
1888 W. Arnold tr. A. Lebon & P. Pelet France as it Is x. 327 In 1463 a truce was signed, which after a brief rupture, became a treaty of peace.
1902 W. G. Blaikie Bk. Joshua x. 118 The breaking by Moses of the two tables of stone seemed an appropriate sequel to the rupture of the covenant which their idolatry had caused.
1927 Times 16 Feb. 13/5 The formal rupture, interruption or adjournment—the precise term is disputed—of the Polish–German Trade Treaty negotiations occurred to-day.
1995 Representations Summer 4 The year 1803 witnessed the rupture of the Treaty of Amiens with England.
b. Breach of continuity; interruption; an instance of this.
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the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > discontinuity or interrupted condition > [noun] > interruption
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1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre i. xxiii. 35 Some eminent particulars..which constant tradition without rupture hath entailed on posteritie.
1640 Ld. Digby in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. iii. 147 A truer cause than the Ruptures and Intermission of Parliaments.
1860 J. Wortabet Res. into Relig. Syria iv. 420 There has been, at times, a long rupture in the chain of its advances, by the intervention of the reign of some conflicting anti-christian power.
1888 Proc. Literary & Philos. Soc. Liverpool 42 23 Successive periods are distinguished under characteristic titles. These distinctive titles, however, do not represent any abrupt divisions or violent ruptures in the course of the national life.
1974 Black World Jan. 64/2 The rupture of one civilization's cultural continuum by the incursion of another.
2000 K. W. Bolle tr. J. Bottéro Birth of God i. 87 Judaism..is still the religion of Yahweh, which it continues without rupture in a long, slow development.
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society > armed hostility > [noun] > outbreak of
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outbreak1885
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. v. 397 [He] believed..that the preserving that Magazine..would likewise prevent any possible rupture into Armes.
1871 G. E. Ellis Mem. Sir B. Thompson ii. 59 The actual rupture into hostilities against the British authority and arms had come suddenly.
5. A breaking off of friendly relations between individuals, groups, or nations; a rift, a separation. Frequently with between, with.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > [noun]
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society > society and the community > dissent > [noun] > division or lack of unity
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1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. P7 Making schismes, ruptures, breaches, and factions in the church of God.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xxvi. 97 For we that have businesse to negotiat here are like to suffer by this rupture.
1674 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 286 Who have declared a war..by open Acts of Hostilitie; and also those of Algier, Tripoly, and Tunis have offered faire for a Rupture.
1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. vi, in Hist. Wks. (1813) I. 461 This rupture contributed..to render the Duke still more odious to the nation.
1788 H. Walpole Reminisc. (1818) vii. 50 She was safe while under the royal roof, even after the rupture between the king and prince.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. i. xviii. 180 He at first threw out hints of an immediate rupture.
a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. ii. 93 The rupture between Church and State was now complete.
1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. 247 She..had not heard of Soames's rupture with his architect.
1966 Life 8 Apr. 27 No one expects an outright diplomatic rupture between the two countries, but the romance seemed beyond any patching up.
1990 A. Stevens On Jung i. 3 Jung recognized that the rupture was due more to personal than to intellectual differences.
Compounds
General attributive and objective. C1. In sense 2, as rupture doctor, rupture surgeon, rupture truss, etc.See also rupturewort n.
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1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 436 A rare Oculist, Operator, Stone, or Broke, or Rupture-cutter, &c.
1764 Ann. Reg. 1763 57 Another trial..wherein a rupture surgeon was plaintiff.
1783 P. Pott Chirurg. Wks. (new ed.) II. 48 That positive assertion which all rupture-quacks make use of.
1787 B. Bell Syst. Surg. V. xxxviii. 506 I would propose to apply a firm-stuffed pad, similar to that of a rupture-truss, to the opening between the vertebræ.
a1843 R. Southey Common-place Bk. (1851) 4th Ser. 589/1 There were itinerant rupture-surgeons.
1912 Texas State Jrnl. Med. 7 309/1 It is a ‘rupture cure’ which is advertised not only in the daily papers..but in some medical journals.
1955 Househ. Guide & Almanac (News of World) 312/1 (advt.) A full life free from worry and strain thanks to..the amazing new system of ‘as-with-the-finger-tips’ rupture control.
1994 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 6 Feb. 24/2 In another section he pokes fun at the poet's rupture truss and calls him ‘faggot’.
C2. In other senses, esp. sense 3.
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1810 G. Crabbe Borough vi. 80 The litigious rupture-stirring Race; Who to Contention as to Trade are led.
1877 H. Reid Sci. & Art Manuf. Portland Cement xviii. 278 Fig. 37 represents the apparatus first used by Treussart, and through the agency of which Pasley obtained his tensile or rupture tests.
1909 J. C. Trautwine & J. C. Trautwine Concrete 1106 In beams, owing to the rising of the neutral axis, under loading, the ult unit fiber stress, or rupture modulus, is about 1.6 × the unit tensile strgth.
1941 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 45 App. 443 The effectiveness of a rupture disk for relieving the rapid pressure rise in a pressure vessel during a combustion explosion of its contents.
1990 A. S. Trenhaile Geomorphol. Canada iii. 38 The rupture surface often lies along discontinuities, especially where they are occupied by a clayey filling.
2001 R. Rand My Suburban Shtetl v. 86 Using Weller's Motel..as ground zero, a ten-megaton ground burst would dig a crater and a rupture zone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
rupturev.
/ˈrʌptʃə/, U.S. /ˈrəp(t)ʃər/ 1.
a. transitive. To tear, split, or burst open (a blood vessel, membrane, etc.); to cause the rupture of (something). Chiefly (in early use only) Medicine and Biology; in later use also more widely. Frequently in passive.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (transitive)] > break to pieces, shatter, or burst
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > vascular disorders > cause vascular disorder [verb (transitive)] > rupture
rupture1578
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man v. f. 67 (margin) The hurte that ensueth peritonæum being ruptured.
1739 S. Sharp Treat. Operations Surg. 136 [If] the Vessels of the Brain and Membranes..are ruptur'd, they absorb the extravasated Blood again.
1793 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. xxiv. 309 The vessels of the brain under such circumstances of disease, are much more liable to be ruptured than in a healthy state.
1827 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 2) i. ii. iii. 150 We observe..that some of the cells are simply dilated, while others are ruptured.
1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants iii. 57 Here and there a few cells both in the glands and in the pedicels had escaped being ruptured.
1922 J. J. Sudborough Bernthsen's Text-bk. Org. Chem. (new ed.) xxxvii. 571 Under these conditions the tetrahydro-isoquinoline ring is ruptured more readily than the piperidine ring.
1963 G. B. Carter et al. Dict. Midwifery (ed. 2) 292/2 When it is necessary to rupture the membranes artificially a pair of forceps, sterilized, may be used.
1990 Reader's Digest Aug. 145/2 Slabs of concrete raining down all around her car, blowing the tyres and rupturing the fuel tank.
2006 Daily Tel. 9 Nov. 24/3 At least I hadn't ruptured the (worse) right tendon.
b. intransitive. To undergo rupture; to tear, split, or burst open.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > breaking or cracking > break [verb (intransitive)] > shatter or break to pieces or burst
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1734 Philos. Trans. Abridged 1719–33 (Royal Soc.) 7 543 The small Lymphatics ruptured, so that the extravasated Lympha rushing out, thickned, and..dilated the injured Ovarium.
1775 G. Motherby New Med. Dict. at Abscess of the Lungs This disorder often grows without any previous complaint, and rupturing suddenly, is the death of the patient.
1863 H. Spencer Ess. 2nd Ser. 25 (note) Instead of a nebulous ring rupturing at one point and collapsing into a single mass.
1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. iv. 552 Aneurysms..are very apt to rupture at an early period into the pericardial cavity.
1912 G. L. Gulland & A. Goodall Blood vi. 48 If the dilution be carried too far the corpuscle ruptures and the hæmoglobin passes into solution.
1981 S. Kitzinger Experience Childbirth (ed. 4) ix. 219 I..had a contraction and the membranes ruptured.
2005 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 2 Aug. 6/2 The special exhibit tank ruptured, scattering..fish across the floor.
2. transitive. To cause (a person) to have a hernia. In later use frequently reflexive.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > cause disorders of internal organs [verb (transitive)] > hernia or rupture
rupture1756
1756 P. Pott Treat. Ruptures i. 18 A fullness which may generally be felt along the process of such children as have been ruptured.
1788 F. Grose Mil. Antiq. II. 200 At length riding the wooden horse having been found to injure the men materially, and sometimes to rupture them, it was left off.
1826 A. C. Hutchison Pract. Observ. Surg. (ed. 2) 184 Making a pretext of being ruptured in the service, and thereby obtaining smart-tickets, which will entitle them to pensions for life.
1859 Lancet Dec. 526/1 Whilst pulling a box from beneath a bed, she ruptured herself in the umbilical region, since which time she had always worn a bandage to support the hernia.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 15 July 3/2 A printer..stated that he had been put in irons and had been thereby ruptured.
1981 M. Keane Good Behaviour xv. 101 ‘Don't rupture yourself, dear,’ he said crossly.
1995 M. Kesavan Looking through Glass 269 He had learnt by watching the soldiers, some of whom could..do the splits and come upright without rupturing themselves.
3. transitive. To sever (a relationship, connection, etc.); to cause a breach of; to disturb.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > quarrel or fall at variance with [verb (transitive)]
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separate [verb (transitive)] > disjoin, disunite, or disconnect > sever (a connection) > cause a breach of (a connection)
rupture1815
1815 S. C. Thacher Apol. for Rational & Evangelical Christianity 24 There is nothing in the differences..which need to loosen, far less to rupture the bonds of christian charity or christian fellowship between us and our brethren.
1854 A. Jameson Commonpl. Bk. 256 The first [marriage], though perhaps unhappy or early ruptured.
1869 E. M. Goulburn Pursuit of Holiness vi. 53 My filial relationship to Him cannot be ruptured by my sin.
1917 Woman's Work June 131/1 Have we cemented friendship or have we ruptured the last golden link which may have survived unbroken the former Mexican War?
1983 G. Amada Guide to Psychotherapy xvii. 76 This can..even, in some instances, rupture an otherwise good relationship.
1999 Nat. Hist. Apr. 30/3 The history of our planet must be ruled by sudden cataclysms that rupture episodes of quiescence.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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n.?a1425v.1578- letter of freedom
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- letter of introduction
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- letter of marque ship
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- letter of mart ship
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- letter of protection
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- letter of recommendation
- letter of recreance
- letter of recredence
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- letter of request
- letter of reversion
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