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rupture

/ruhp-cher/US // ˈrʌp tʃər //UK // (ˈrʌptʃə) //

破裂,崩裂,爆裂,破裂缝

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of breaking or bursting: The flood led to the rupture of the dam.
    • : the state of being broken or burst: a rupture in the earth's surface.
    • : a breach of harmonious, friendly, or peaceful relations.
    • : Pathology. hernia, especially abdominal hernia.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    rup·tured, rup·tur·ing.

    • : to break or burst: He ruptured a blood vessel.
    • : to cause a breach of: to rupture friendly relations.
    • : Pathology. to affect with hernia.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    rup·tured, rup·tur·ing.

    • : to suffer a break or rupture.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noundisagreement, dissolution

Examples

  • He said crews were not sure what caused the main to rupture.

  • A widely known concept in studying family interactions, “rupture and repair,” describes the importance of the repair process after a negative interaction.

  • When we feel shame, we are unable to engage in the “repair” step, which only leaves the rupture.

  • The conversion of public subsidy into private profit feels like a rupture in the system—one that would be fixed, perhaps, if states controlled the fruits of their funding more.

  • Philip’s reported insistence on leaving his own mark may have led to a post-coronation rupture in their relationship.

  • Over the next eight years, the rupture would fissure across every state and territory in the Union.

  • A fragile and divided Lebanon risks rupture over the civil war raging next door in Syria.

  • Are we living through a parallel period – an end of an era before a rupture?

  • The second section, Rupture, represents the state between death and rebirth.

  • The exhibition is divided into three sections: origin, rupture, and rebirth.

  • Between South and North, the probabilities of a serious, and no very distant rupture, are strong and manifest.

  • One of these is the liability to inguinal hernia, or rupture, which leads to much suffering and frequent death in man.

  • It is remarkable that this was not against the composers wishes, even if he did nothing actually to cause the rupture.

  • An address founded on these resolutions was voted; many thought that a violent rupture was inevitable.

  • She was bound to him by bonds so intimately and secretly interwoven that to rupture any one of them would kill her.