Both Uses of
rupture
in
Oryx and Crake
- A couple of the anchors, news jocks to the end, set the cameras to film their own deaths — the screams, the dissolving skins, the ruptured eyeballs and all.†
p. 344.4 *
- He hobbles across the beach to the water's edge, washes his foot, feels the sting of salt: there must have been a boil, the thing must have ruptured overnight, the wound feels huge now.†
p. 371.9
Definition:
to burst, break, or tear; or the resultant damage -- can also be non-physical as in damaging a relationship or logical argument