rupturing

verb

present participle of rupture
1
as in fracturing
to cause to develop a hole, crack, or tear often in a sudden and forceful or violent way She was out for the rest of the season after she ruptured a tendon.

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2
as in exploding
to develop a hole, crack, or tear often in a sudden and forceful or violent way The pipeline ruptured, leaking thousands of gallons of oil. The fault could rupture during the next major earthquake. High blood pressure caused the blood vessels to rupture.

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Recent Examples of rupturing Wide receiver Davante Adams will be out 6–10 weeks after rupturing his hamstring, head coach Sean McVay revealed following the shocking 18-16 loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Sunday at SoFi Stadium. — Scott Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 Oct. 2026 Cloé Lacasse, forward, Utah Royals Lacasse is playing her first full season for Utah after rupturing an ACL and spraining an MCL in 2024 and missing much of 2025. — Karan Lodha, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026 Things took a sharp turn the night before the finals, when Grey was hospitalized after rupturing a disc in her back. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 16 Sep. 2026 As an adult, she was also racked with severe pain as well as nausea, heavy periods, acne and rupturing ovarian cysts. — Laura Ungar, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026 Ossai will be week-to-week after rupturing the plantar fascia in his foot against the Giants last Friday night. — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 31 Aug. 2026 Thompson, who is preparing for his 14th NBA season, is a different player at this point of his NBA career after tearing his ACL in 2019 and then rupturing his Achilles in 2020. — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026 Nevertheless, Corrales was left wondering last month if his recruiting channel was at risk of rupturing. — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 27 Aug. 2026 Firefighters determined that lightning had struck an underground natural gas main near the tree, rupturing the gas line, and igniting the tree. — Todd Feurer, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rupturing
  1. fracturing
  2. exploding
  3. pulling
  4. bursting
  5. breaking
  6. blowing
  7. ripping
  8. tearing
Verb
  • Liufau is slated to make his season debut on Sunday against the Colts after fracturing his forearm in the team’s preseason finale.
    — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Nov. 2026
  • Dmitriev followed up by posting a meme about the new global world order — an American eagle and a Russian bear together snarling at a British lion over the fate of a fracturing European continent.
    — Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of fracturing
Verb
  • The series’ second season is invigorating, too, but in a different way, like an icy wind finding its way under your scarf, or a snowball exploding into a puff of powder on your face.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026
  • It was rebroadcast around the country, and the exploding whale became a kind of mascot for Florence and a point of pride for many of its residents.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of exploding
Verb
  • The first daily chart, going back to July, shows PJP rallying through the summer, topping in late August, and pulling back into October before advancing again.
    — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026
  • With a tighter opening, the octopus added a step, pulling the remaining arms through before squeezing its head and mantle through separately.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of pulling
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  • When a bank of televisions showed horses bursting through the starting gate, feet stomped on the club’s carpet.
    — Abe Streep, ProPublica, 21 Oct. 2026
  • And every few months, a bursting FedEx envelope from Baltimore would appear at my desk at PRH containing Professor Dixon’s typewritten chunks of new and unpublished writing.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of bursting
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  • Rip currents remain possible at all breaches with breaking waves.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • But this year's contest ended up being the most expensive in Kansas history, with Hamilton breaking multiple fundraising records.
    — Grace Hills, NPR, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of breaking
Verb
  • The professional and business services sector, as the agency classifies it, gained 70,000 jobs, blowing past its average monthly gain of 15,000 over the past year.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Electric fireplaces produce heat by blowing air over heated coils or with infrared light and can be used with or without the heating function engaged.
    — BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of blowing
Verb
  • There should be some standards set that these ads should be representative of the person running for office rather than ripping the opponent to shreds.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 5 Nov. 2026
  • For an existing colo, ripping out that infrastructure is unthinkable.
    — Steve Altizer, Forbes.com, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of ripping
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  • That means lagless, stutter-free gameplay that all but eliminates annoying screen tearing.
    — Kelsey Fogarty, PC Magazine, 5 Nov. 2026
  • The states were resisting a tyrannical president amid a civil war tearing the country apart.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of tearing

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