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.

Synonyms & Similar 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
• uncoupling
• disuniting
• fragmentizing
• fragmentating
• parting
• disjoining
• disjointing
• untieing
• breaking up
• dissevering
• unlinking
• unyoking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• 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.

Synonyms & Similar 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
• ballooning
• breaking up
• dissevering
• unlinking
• bourgeoning

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• 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