Synonyms of rupturing

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.

Related Words

• fracturing
• pulling
• breaking
• ripping
• tearing
• rending
• puncturing
• lacerating
• penetrating
• severing
• slashing
• incising
• gashing
• perforating
• cutting
• disintegrating
• slitting
• dissolving
• notching
• riving
• decomposing
• rifting
• disassembling
• dissecting
• cleaving
• bifurcating
• fragmenting
• bisecting
• subdividing
• halving
• splitting
• segmenting
• fractionating
• detaching
• partitioning
• breaking down
• dichotomizing
• quartering
• disconnecting
• dividing
• trisecting
• disengaging
• unraveling
• separating
• dissociating
• fractionalizing
• disentangling
• ramifying
• divorcing
• resolving
• sundering
• untying
• disassociating
• decoupling
• disjoining
• uncoupling
• disuniting
• fragmentizing
• fragmentating
• parting
• disjointing
• breaking up
• dissevering
• unlinking
• unyoking

Dissimilar Words

• filling
• repairing
• closing
• healing
• sealing
• plugging
• sewing
• binding
• attaching
• sticking
• cementing
• knitting
• accumulating
• patching
• welding
• fusing
• connecting
• suturing
• combining
• fastening
• mending
• coupling
• joining
• stitching
• merging
• linking
• darning
• consolidating
• uniting
• agglutinating
• unifying

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.

Related Words

• exploding
• bursting
• breaking
• blowing
• tearing
• detonating
• splitting
• ripping
• shattering
• cleaving
• smashing
• rending
• shredding
• fragmenting
• popping
• cracking
• splintering
• severing
• tattering
• separating
• going off
• crumping
• riving
• blowing up
• sectioning
• parting
• snapping
• burgeoning
• mushrooming
• breaking up
• ballooning
• dissevering
• unlinking

Dissimilar Words

• collapsing
• imploding
• connecting
• combining
• coupling
• joining
• fusing
• uniting
• marrying
• mixing
• coalescing
• linking (up)
• unifying
• associating
• mating
• conjoining
• knitting
• assembling
• conjugating
• blending
• mingling
• yoking
• compounding
• splicing
• rejoining
• hooking
• reuniting
• reconnecting
• interfusing
• chaining
• hitching
• recombining
• reunifying

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of rupturing

One fault rupturing could prompt a nearby fault — almost already to rupture — to go off in a quake. — Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026

Such a major quake starts at one location and propagates along the fault, rupturing different parts at different times. — Kasha Patel, CNN Money, 25 June 2026

Additionally, blood vessels can become weakened and are at a higher risk of tearing or rupturing. — Angela Ryan Lee, Verywell Health, 23 June 2026

Jones, 29, is just over six months removed from rupturing his right Achilles last December. — James Boyd, New York Times, 11 June 2026

The team identified that the 1857 earthquake was an example of the former, while an 1812 event was an example of the latter, rupturing across both fault systems. — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 10 June 2026

An 18-year-old man who crashed into a Northglenn home last week, rupturing a gas line and killing his passenger, has been charged with vehicular homicide, prosecutors announced Thursday. — Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 4 June 2026

Sharpshooting guard Donte DiVicenzo will not return to the playoffs after rupturing an Achilles tendon in Game 4 against the Nuggets. — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 3 May 2026

In his first start since rupturing his left Achilles while pitching for the Mets in June, Canning allowed a run in five innings and departed with the Padres up 3-1. — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 May 2026