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

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

Watson hasn't appeared in an NFL game since rupturing his Achilles in October 2024. — Dan Zaksheske Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 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