LekhoriLekhoriA burst, split, or break.
Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed / Their callow young.
A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
The cracking sound, he explained, as far as I, a non-plumber, could understand, was the sound of the overworked, undermaintained and weirdly installed heating unit’s core rupturing and spilling water into the basement.
To dehisce irregularly.
Borrowed from Middle French rupture, or its source, Latin ruptūra (“a breaking, rupture (of a limb or vein)”) and Medieval Latin ruptūra (“a road, a field, a form of feudal tenure, a tax, etc.”), from...
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