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Definition

to burst, break, or tear; or the resultant damage — can also be non-physical as in damaging a relationship or logical argument

The fuel tank ruptured, and the car burst into flames.

diagnosed as a ruptured disc
The incident ruptured the relationship beyond repair.
The bubonic plague ruptured the fabric of the feudal order.
Colton's appendix has ruptured.
Todd Burpo -- Heaven Is for Real

ruptured = burst; or broken open

Then there was a final, complete rupture.
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
My eardrums practically ruptured from the force of the blast.
James Patterson -- School's Out - Forever
We have lifted one example, quite at random, from among his infinite attempts to rupture reason.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
He was rolling in agony on the deck, one eardrum ruptured, totally deafened.
Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
The dam bursts, everything inside ruptures, I'm dead.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
He accidentally hit a gas main that had ruptured during the earthquake.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
It hit on the outside of his left eye, and his eye exploded, just ruptured and came out.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
He swung the mallet against the bronze, over and over, until his eardrums nearly ruptured from the deafening ring.
Henry H. Neff -- The Second Siege
High in the gray stone mountains, under a frowning peak, a little spring bubbled out of a rupture in the stone.
John Steinbeck -- The Pearl
I hoped I'd ruptured his eardrum.
James Patterson -- Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
Then I went to volunteer, but it turned out that Bizcocho had ruptured me.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
Kronos stomped his foot, and the floor ruptured around Ethan Nakamura.
Rick Riordan -- The Last Olympian
She washed witch hazel over the rupture and taped me tightly with extra-long Band-Aids.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
The telephone ruptured the night.
Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War
The doctor suspected that the tricuspid valve had ruptured, that her son needed valve replacement surgery.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me

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