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Rupture vs Lacerate - What's the difference?

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Rupture is a related term of lacerate.


As verbs the difference between rupture and lacerate

is that rupture is (intransitive) to burst, break through, or split, as under pressure while lacerate is to tear, rip or wound.

As a noun rupture

is a burst, split, or break.

As an adjective lacerate is

(botany) jagged, as if torn or lacerated.

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.

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    lacerate

    English

    Verb

    (lacerat)
  • To tear, rip or wound.
  • To thoroughly defeat; to thrash
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 15 , author=Amy Lawrence , title=Arsenal's Gervinho enjoys the joy of six against lowly Southampton , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=When the fixtures tumbled out of the computer for the start of a newly promoted season, Nigel Adkins must have wondered whether he had unknowingly broken any mirrors while walking under a ladder. Hot on the heels of a tough introduction to both Manchester clubs, a rampant Arsenal lacerated Southampton.}}

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (botany) Jagged, as if torn or lacerated.
    • The bract at the base is dry and papery, often lacerate near its apex.
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