Abruption vs Rupture - What's the difference?
abruption | rupture |
(archaic) A sudden termination or interruption.
A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies.
* 1837 , , The Life of Cowley :
* 1996 , Richard Taruskin, Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions , page 336:
A burst, split, or break.
* Milton
A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
* E. Everett
(medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
(engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
(intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
As nouns the difference between abruption and rupture
is that abruption is (archaic) a sudden termination or interruption while rupture is a burst, split, or break.As a verb rupture is
(intransitive) to burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.abruption
English
(wikipedia abruption)Noun
(en noun)- By this abruption posterity lost more instruction than delight. Johnson, Life of Cowley.
- After a startling abruption and a slow recovery, the canonic process is resumed at [7], with a whole slew of redundant entries on the last phrase.
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rupture
English
Noun
(en noun)- Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture , forth disclosed / Their callow young.
- He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.