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Sundering vs Rupture - What's the difference?

sundering | rupture |

As verbs the difference between sundering and rupture

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

As nouns the difference between sundering and rupture

is that sundering is the act by which something is sundered while rupture is a burst, split, or break.

sundering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is sundered.
  • * 2002 , Mike Crang, ?Nigel Thrift, Thinking Space (page 178)
    • Meta-philosophy is an antidote: it attempts to surmount separations and sunderings , tries to unite speculative philosophy and critical theory with political action.

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    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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