Available Definitions:
1) a. - Having a rupture, or hernia.
2) n. - Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture.
3) n. - Hernia. See Hernia .
4) n. - A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion .
5) v. t. - To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel.
6) v. t. - To produce a hernia in.
7) v. i. - To suffer a breach or disruption.