Ruptured

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rupture \Rup"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ruptured}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Rupturing}.]
     1. To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a
        blood vessel.
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     2. To produce a hernia in.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ruptured \Rup"tured\ (?; 135), a. (Med.)
     Having a rupture, or hernia.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ruptured
       adj : suddenly and violently broken open especially from internal
             pressure (`busted' is an informal term for `burst'); "a
             burst balloon"; "burst pipes"; "burst seams"; "a
             ruptured appendix"; "a busted balloon" [syn: {burst}, {busted}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "ruptured":
     aggravated, broken, burned, burst, busted, checked, chipped,
     cracked, crazed, cut, damaged, deteriorated, embittered,
     exacerbated, harmed, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces,
     in shards, injured, irritated, lacerated, mangled, mutilated, rent,
     scalded, scorched, shattered, slashed, slit, smashed, split,
     sprung, the worse for, torn, weakened, worse, worse off,
     worsened