Definitions
the act of making a sudden noisy break
Word origin
Borrowed from Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin ruptūra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin ruptūra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from the participle stem of rumpere (“to break, burst”). Doublet of roture.
Used in a sentence
“Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed / Their callow young.”
“He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.”
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Sudden break”7 letters
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