Definition of "rupture"

rupture

/ˈɹʌptʃə/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural ruptures
1. A burst, split, or break.
  Quotations
  Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed / Their callow young.
  1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,
2. A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
  Quotations
  He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
  1825, Edward Everett, Claims of the United States on Naples and Holland
  Thus a war was kindled with Lubec; Denmark took part with the king's enemies, and made use of a frivolous pretence, which demonstrated the inclination of his Danish majesty to come to a rupture.
  1761, The Modern Part of an Universal History
3. (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
4. (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
verb
third-person singular simple present ruptures, present participle rupturing, simple past and past participle ruptured
1. (transitive, intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
2. (botany, intransitive) To dehisce irregularly.