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Rupture

noun

State of being torn or burst open.

A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions). Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rift, severance.

The act of making a sudden noisy break.

verb

(past & past part. ruptured; pres. part. rupturing)

Separate or cause to separate abruptly. Synonyms: bust, snap, tear. "Tear the paper"

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"Rupture" Quotes from Famous Books

... President fell below a million, that is behind the vote of 1912, notwithstanding a doubling of the electorate with women's suffrage. Finally, the same convention of the American Federation of Labor, which showed so much sympathy for the ideas of the Plumb Plan League, approved a rupture with the International Trade Union Federation, with headquarters in Amsterdam, Holland, mainly on account of the revolutionary character of the ...

— A History of Trade Unionism in the United States • Selig Perlman

... fearful accidents occasionally happen where large grindstones are being driven at a high speed. The velocity of rotation becomes too great for the tenacity of the stone to withstand the stress; a rupture takes place, the stone flies in pieces, and huge fragments are hurled around. For each particular grindstone there is a certain special velocity depending upon its actual materials and character, at which it would inevitably fly in pieces. I have once before likened our earth to a wheel; ...

— Time and Tide - A Romance of the Moon • Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

... don't ye think he owes his fall to his ambition to humble England by rupture of the Peace of Amiens, and trying to invade us, and wasting his strength against us in ...

— The Dynasts - An Epic-Drama Of The War With Napoleon, In Three Parts, - Nineteen Acts, And One Hundred And Thirty Scenes • Thomas Hardy

... ranges. The Lelands were again at the Echo Creek. Time and a natural strong affection had cooled the heat of passion in father and daughter. Love and consanguinity narrowed the breach which lay between them, although the rupture, if it ever healed completely, would leave its scar. Each nature came to make certain allowances for the other; their intercourse, though not intimate, was amicable. Neither made any reference before the other to Wayne Shandon. And, as naturally as this condition arose, Wanda ...

— The Short Cut • Jackson Gregory

... soundness of his views Instances of his humanity and generosity while at Cephalonia 1824. Jan. 5., arrives at Missolonghi Writes 'Lines on completing my thirty-sixth year' Intended attack upon Lepanto Is made commander-in-chief of the expedition Rupture with the Suliotes The expedition suspended His last illness His death His funeral Inscription on his monument His will His person His sensitiveness on the subject of his lameness His abstemiousness His habitual melancholy ...

— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) - With his Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

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