ETYM Latin ruptura, from rumpere, ruptum to break: cf. French rupture. Related to Reave, Rout a defeat.
In medicine, another name for hernia.
1. A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); SYN. breach, break, severance, rift, falling out.
2. State of being torn or burst open.
3. The act of making a sudden noisy break.

1. To part by violence; break, burst
2. To create or induce a breach of
3. To produce a rupture in
4. To have or undergo a rupture