ruptures

breaks, cracks, fissures, fractures, rifts, splits, tears

cuts, gashes, incisions, lacerations, notches, rents, rips, slashes, slits

breaches, gaps, openings

checks, chinks, clefts, crannies, crevices

snags

gouges, grooves, hollows

abysses, chasms, gulfs, vacuities, vacuums (or vacua), voids

burrows, caverns, caves, ditches, excavations, furrows, gutters, trenches, troughs

cavities, concavities, dents, depressions, dints, holes, indentations, indentures, pits, recesses

canyons (also cañons), combes (also coombes) [British], dells, dingles, glens, gorges, gulches, gullies (also gulleys), kloofs [South African], ravines, rift valleys

boreholes, chuckholes, craters, postholes, potholes, sinkholes, wallows, water holes, wells

blasts, blowups, bursts, detonations, eruptions, explosions, outbursts

abrasions, scores, scrapes, scratches

injuries, wounds

perforations, pinholes, pinpricks, pricks, punches, punctures, stabs

bifurcations, breaches, breakups, cleavages, dissolutions, disunions, divisions, divorces, fractionalizations, fractionations, partitions, rifts, schisms, separations, severances, splits

alienations, disaffections, disgruntlements, estrangements

antagonisms, embitterments

animosities, antipathies, hostilities, jaundices, rancors

feuds, vendettas

altercations, argle-bargles [chiefly British], arguments, argy-bargies [chiefly British], battles royal (or battle royals), bickers, brawls, contretemps, controversies, cross fires, disagreements, disputes, donnybrooks, fallings-out (or falling-outs), fights, hassles, imbroglios, kickups, misunderstandings, quarrels, rhubarbs, rows, scraps, set-tos, spats, squabbles, tiffs, wrangles

aggravations, furies, furors, indignations, infuriations, ires, outrages, rages, spleens, wraths

disenchantments, disillusionments

breaks, fractures, pulls, rends, rifts, rips, rives, tears

cuts, gashes, incises, lacerates, notches, slashes, slits

penetrates, perforates, punctures

breaks down, decomposes, disassembles, disintegrates, dissolves

bifurcates, bisects, cleaves, dichotomizes, dissects, fractionalizes, fractionates, halves, partitions, quarters, segments, subdivides, trisects

fragmentates, fragmentizes, fragments

detaches, disengages, disentangles, unravels, unties

breaks up, decouples, disassociates, disconnects, disjoins, disjoints, dissevers, dissociates, disunites, divides, divorces, parts, ramifies, resolves, separates, severs, splits, sunders, uncouples, unlinks, unyokes

blows, breaks, cleaves, splits

rends, rips, rives, shreds, tatters, tears

blows up, bursts, crumps, detonates, explodes, goes off, pops

fragments, shatters, smashes, splinters

breaks up, dissevers, parts, sections, separates, severs, unlinks

balloons, burgeons (also bourgeons), mushrooms

cracks, snaps