A rupture is a severe injury in which an internal part of your body tears or bursts open, especially the part between the bowels and the abdomen.

If a person or animal ruptures a part of their body or if it ruptures, it tears or bursts open.

If you rupture yourself, you rupture a part of your body, usually because you have lifted something heavy.

If an object ruptures or if something ruptures it, it bursts open.

If there is a rupture between people, relations between them get much worse or end completely.

If someone or something ruptures relations between people, they damage them, causing them to become worse or to end.