Meaning
RUP'TURE, n. [L. ruptus, rumpo, to break.]
1. The act of breaking or bursting; the state of being broken or violently parted; as the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber.
2. Hernia; a preternatural protrusion of the contents of the abdomen.
3. Breach of peace or concord, either between individuals or nations; between nations, open hostility or war. We say, the parties or nations have come to an open rupture.
He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
RUP'TURE, v.t. To break; to burst; to part by violence; as, to rupture a blood vessel.
RUP'TURE, v.i. To suffer a breach of disruption.
