Meaning of ruption | Babel Free
/ˈɹʌpʃən/Definitions
- A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.
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A commotion. rare
Examples
“The plenitude of vessels or plethora causes an extravasion of blood, by ruption or apertion”
“You can't cure it, for it's a ruption of an air vessel , and you can't get at it to sew it up.”
“Still there was a possibility of ectopic gestation with a ruption of tube downward, death of ovum, and a disintergration of this foreign growth.”
“The ruption of teeth in the healthy child is a physiological process without disturbance,”
“"Would you? You might insist long long enough before you would get that done. I fancy," replied Peter Dyer, who was much inclined to assist in a "ruption," as he termed it, in the morning, as he had been in the night before.”
“But you know the square and I had a kind of a ruption about that Mr. Quickerrow; he don't come here, and so I don't come to your house.”
“The tricks they play on each other are amusing, and a ruption occurs whenever they meet.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.