Other forms: ruptured, ruptures, rupturing
To rupture is to burst or tear open under pressure. A ruptured pipe, rupture the tank, a ruptured appendix.
In medicine it is the standard word for a tear in a vessel or organ, and a ruptured appendix is the emergency the operation exists to prevent. In engineering, rupture is the failure point of a material. As a noun it also means a sudden break in relations: a rupture between the two countries. Note that hernia was once commonly called a rupture, which is now dated.
1verbruptureTo burst or tear open under pressure.
“The pipe ruptured in the frost, and water poured into the kitchen.”
2nounsuddenA sudden break in relations.
“The argument caused a rupture between the two brothers that never healed.”
rupture is a bursting or break.
Latin ruptura comes from rumpere, to break. Corrupt, erupt, interrupt and bankrupt come from the same breaking.
Latin
ruptūra
Middle French
rupture
English, today
rupture
Built from
Borrowed from Middle French rupture, from Latin ruptūra. Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin ruptūra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin ruptūra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from the participle stem of rumpo (“to break, burst”). a doublet of roture.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA