ruption

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ruptio, from rumpere, ruptum (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌpʃən/
• Rhymes: -ʌpʃən

Noun

ruption (plural ruptions)

1. A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.
   • 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgicall Treatises, London: […] E. Flesher and J. Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took, […], →OCLC:

     The plenitude of vessels or plethora causes an extravasion of blood, by ruption or apertion

   • 1859, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Nature and Human Nature, page 218:

     You can't cure it, for it's a ruption of an air vessel , and you can't get at it to sew it up.

   • 1896, Ira C. Barnes, “Two Cases of Simulated Pregnancy”, in The Kansas City Medical Index-lancet, volume 17, page 225:

     Still there was a possibility of ectopic gestation with a ruption of tube downward, death of ovum, and a disintergration of this foreign growth.

   • 1914, New International Encyclopedia - Volume 5, page 184:

     The ruption of teeth in the healthy child is a physiological process without disturbance,

2. (rare) A commotion.
   • 1846, Ellen Pickering ·, Cousin Hinton, Or, Friend Or Foe, page 42:

     "Would you? You might insist long long enough before you would get that done. I fancy," replied Peter Dyer, who was much inclined to assist in a "ruption," as he termed it, in the morning, as he had been in the night before.

   • 1871, Elija Kellogg, “The Sophomores of Radcliffe”, in Our Boys and Girls, volume 9, number 216, page 453:

     But you know the square and I had a kind of a ruption about that Mr. Quickerrow; he don't come here, and so I don't come to your house.

   • 1908, Collection of Plays Ca. 1870-1914, volume 17, page 9:

     The tricks they play on each other are amusing, and a ruption occurs whenever they meet.

Anagrams

• Puriton, uniport