Rupture vs Fractured - What's the difference?
rupture | fractured |
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.
(not comparable) Broken into sharp pieces.
Split into groups which disagree.
(fracture)
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)- 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.
Verb
(ruptur)See also
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* * * English ergative verbs ----fractured
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Her fractured family could never agree on anything.