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rupture
noun as in break, split
noun as in disagreement, dissolution
verb as in break open
Example Sentences
What is certain though is that the Middle East has no chance of escaping more generations of war and violent death until the region’s fundamental political ruptures are faced and fixed.
After he was evacuated from the front, doctors stitched up a ruptured intestine, removed part of his colon, and plied him with antibiotics.
Last year, for example, legislators added an update to the ban for patients diagnosed with previable premature rupture of membranes, in which a patient’s water breaks before a fetus can survive.
As the plaques become unstable and rupture, blood clots form and can completely block the vessel or be carried by the bloodstream to other organs such as the brain.
The Ballon d'Or winner is set to miss the rest of the season after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament against Arsenal in September.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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