All 3 Uses of
rupture
in
Washington Square
- She hardly knew what had happened; ostensibly she had only had a difference with her lover, as other girls had had before, and the thing was not only not a rupture, but she was under no obligation to regard it even as a menace.†
Chpt 30
- As time went on, it might have appeared to the Doctor that his daughter's account of her rupture with Morris Townsend, mere bravado as he had deemed it, was in some degree justified by the sequel.†
Chpt 32
- You have only to look at her to see that, right or wrong, and whether the rupture came from herself or from him, her poor little heart is grievously bruised.†
Chpt 32 *
Definition:
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(rupture) to burst, break, or tear; or the resultant damage -- can also be non-physical as in damaging a relationship or logical argument