Definitions for rupture

rupture rup·ture

Spelling: [ruhp-cher]
IPA: /ˈrʌp tʃər/

Rupture is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in rupture (eprrtuu).

Definitions for rupture

noun

  1. the act of breaking or bursting:
  2. the state of being broken or burst:
  3. a breach of harmonious, friendly, or peaceful relations.
  4. Pathology. hernia, especially abdominal hernia.

verb (used with object)

  1. to break or burst:
  2. to cause a breach of:
  3. Pathology. to affect with hernia.

verb (used without object)

  1. to suffer a break or rupture.

Origin of rupture

1475-85; Latin ruptūra (noun), equivalent to rupt(us) (past participle of rumpere to break) + -ūra -ure

Examples for rupture

The second section, rupture, represents the state between death and rebirth.

It is rumored here that the Russian ambassador is no stranger to this rupture.'

As soon as each understood the other's full intention, there would be a rupture.

It was a rupture in our genealogy that came to serve as a metaphor for larger losses in black history.

If he remained only a few minutes it would indicate that there had been a rupture.

Step by step the mother country and its colonies were advancing to a rupture.

The exhibition is divided into three sections: origin, rupture, and rebirth.

Over the next eight years, the rupture would fissure across every state and territory in the Union.

The married couple should, therefore, avoid everything which may rupture this link.

Are we living through a parallel period – an end of an era before a rupture?

Word Value for rupture
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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