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Rupture vs Fractured - What's the difference?

rupture | fractured |

As verbs the difference between rupture and fractured

is that rupture is (intransitive) to burst, break through, or split, as under pressure while fractured is (fracture).

As a noun rupture

is a burst, split, or break.

As an adjective fractured is

(not comparable) broken into sharp pieces.

rupture

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A burst, split, or break.
  • * Milton
  • Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture , forth disclosed / Their callow young.
  • A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
  • * E. Everett
  • He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
  • (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.
  • Verb

    (ruptur)
  • (intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
  • See also

    *

    fractured

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (not comparable) Broken into sharp pieces.
  • Split into groups which disagree.
  • Her fractured family could never agree on anything.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fracture)