Rend vs Rupture - What's the difference?
rend | rupture | Synonyms |
To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst
* 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
* 1970 , Alvin Toffler, Future Shock'', ''Bantam Books , pg. 317:
To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force.
To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split.
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 verbs the difference between rend and rupture
is that rend is to separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst while rupture is to burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.As a noun rupture is
a burst, split, or break.rend
English
Verb
- Powder rends a rock in blasting.
- Lightning rends an oak.
- If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak / And peg thee in his knotty entrails till / Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters.
- We are most vulnerable now to the messages of the new subcults, to the claims and counterclaims that rend the air.
- Relationships may rend if tempers flare.
- Rending of garments for shiva is a Jewish tradition.
Anagrams
* English irregular verbs ----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.