ruption — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.

   Esempi

   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.

   Altri esempi (2)

   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,

2. A commotion.

   Uso

   • raro

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   "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.