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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Tearing and breaking into pieces
apart
asunder
bobble
bobbly
break into pieces
chip
crack
disintegration
dismantle
fall apart
fall to piecesidiom
fragment
fragmentation
rip
shred
snag
splinter
split
sunder
tear something apart

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rupture | American Dictionary

rupture
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈrʌp·tʃər/
to burst or break, or to cause something to burst or break:
[ I ]High winds caused the oil tank to rupture.

rupture

noun[ C ]us/ˈrʌp·tʃər/
There is a rupture in confidence in government.

Examples of rupture

rupture
Both papers report on the immediate leakage of particulate matter, which is evidence for ruptures in the cell walls.
The aneurysms ruptured into the right ventricle in 73%, into the right atrium in 27% and into the left ventricle in less than 1%.
Ourfindingsindicate that antigen is liberated into the culture medium as soon as the first cells in culture rupture, liberating free trypanosomes.
Therefore, the social and political organization of newly created settlements in the north embodied more continuity than rupture with pre-colonial history.
Thus, in the song's opening gestures, sound ruptures spacious silence and silence engulfs assertive sound; neither sound nor silence gains a firm perceptual foothold.
In the present case, the historically grounded theory that we propose tends to emphasise continuities rather than ruptures.
The evidence presented by archaeology and mythology is both abundant and ruptured.
Defining the limits of survival: lethal pulmonary hypoplasia after midtrimester premature rupture of membranes.
Factors that predispose to premature rupture of the fetal membranes.
In the remaining 5-10% of term deliveries the membranes rupture prior to the onset of clinically apparent contractions.
A comparison of normal and premature ruptured membranes.
Infection and premature rupture of the membranes signs of infection appear should be reappraised as a treatment option.
To this should be added that the alienation expressed through modernist rupture cannot simply be reversed.
He was also less capable than they were of imagining that the rupture caused by the revolution could be undone.
The head-capsule, however, ruptures along two lateral longitudinal lines, thus forming three flaps, the median one bearing the antennae.
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