Rupture

Rupture

(1):

(n.) Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture.

(2):

(n.) The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring.

(3):

(v. t.) To produce a hernia in.

(4):

(n.) Hernia. See Hernia.

(5):

(v. i.) To suffer a breach or disruption.

(6):

(v. t.) To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel.

(7):

(n.) A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion.