The act of breaking or bursting; the state of being broken or violently parted; as the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber.

Hernia; a preternatural protrusion of the contents of the abdomen.

Breach of peace or concord, either between individuals or nations; between nations, open hostility or war. We say, the parties or nations have come to an open rupture. He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.

To break; to burst; to part by violence; as, to rupture a blood vessel.

To suffer a breach of disruption.