All 7 Uses of
rupture
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- To leave her situation at once was impossible not only on account of the money debt, but also to spare the feelings of Marfa Petrovna, whose suspicions would have been aroused: and then Dounia would have been the cause of a rupture in the family.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- Then, begging her pardon for all past unpleasantness, to make her a present of ten thousand roubles and so assist the rupture with Mr. Luzhin, a rupture to which I believe she is herself not disinclined, if she could see the way to it.†
Chpt 4.1
- Then, begging her pardon for all past unpleasantness, to make her a present of ten thousand roubles and so assist the rupture with Mr. Luzhin, a rupture to which I believe she is herself not disinclined, if she could see the way to it.†
Chpt 4.1
- So that's how it stands!" cried Luzhin, utterly unable to the last moment to believe in the rupture and so completely thrown out of his reckoning now.†
Chpt 4.2
- This sudden horrible rupture affected him like a clap of thunder; it was like a hideous joke, an absurdity.†
Chpt 4.3
- Pulcheria Alexandrovna was surprised to find that she, too, was glad: she had only that morning thought rupture with Luzhin a terrible misfortune.†
Chpt 4.3
- A final rupture took place and he was turned out of the house.†
Chpt 5.3
Definition:
to burst, break, or tear; or the resultant damage -- can also be non-physical as in damaging a relationship or logical argument