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

Rodrygo — still recovering after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee six months ago — Federico Valverde, Jude Bellingham and Arda Guler have all moonlighted on the right wing. — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 30 July 2026

Putin, on the other hand, has no problem rupturing his trade relations, and with them international investment and other forms of connectivity. — Frank Lavin, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026

Previous flights ended with the spacecraft engulfed in flames and exploding at splashdown — or rupturing in midair. — Marcia Dunn, Fortune, 25 July 2026

Previous flights ended with the spacecraft engulfed in flames and exploding at splashdown -- or rupturing in midair. — Arkansas Online, 24 July 2026

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

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