Definitions for ruptures

ruptures rup·ture

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

Ruptures is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 174 anagrams from letters in ruptures (eprrstuu).

Definitions for ruptures

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 ruptures

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

Examples for ruptures

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for ruptures
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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