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Synonyms of rupture in English:

rupture


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noun

1‘a recent series of pipeline ruptures’

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break, fracture, crack
burst, split, fissure, blowout

2‘the rupture was due more to personal than to intellectual differences’

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rift, estrangement, break-up, breach, split, severance, separation, parting, division, alienation
disagreement, quarrel, feud
schism
informal falling-out, bust-up
British informal row

3‘ruptures are most common in the very young or very old’

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hernia

verb

1‘the steel drum enclosing the reactor core might rupture’

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break, fracture, crack, breach
burst, split, tear, puncture
informal bust

2‘the situation threatened to rupture their relationships’

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sever, break, cut off, break off, breach, disrupt
separate, divide
literary tear asunder, cleave, rend, sunder, rive
rare dissever