Synonyms of the word

rupture

• n. A burst, split, or break.
• n. A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
• n. (medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
• n. (engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.

breach

• n. A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee; the space between…
• n. A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
• n. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
• n. A breaking out upon; an assault.
• n. (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
• n. (archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
• n. (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
• n. (figuratively) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
• n. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
• v. (transitive) To make a breach in.
• v. (transitive) To violate or break.
• v. (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
• v. (intransitive, of a whale) To leap clear out of the water.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

breakage

• n. The act of breaking.
• n. Something that has been broken.
• n. The left-over money in a parimutuel betting pool resulting from rounding off the payoffs, added to the…

breaking

• v. present participle of break.
• n. The act by which something is broken.
• n. (linguistics) A change of a vowel to a diphthong.
• n. (music) A form of ornamentation in which groups of short notes are used instead of long ones.
• n. breakdancing.

breakup

• n. The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
• n. The termination of a friendship, or a romantic relationship.
• n. A loss of emotional control; a breakdown.
• n. (Alaska) Spring.

bust

• n. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
• n. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
• v. To break something.
• v. (slang) To arrest for a crime.
• v. (slang) To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal,…
• v. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
• v. (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
• v. (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
• v. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
• n. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
• n. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
• n. (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
• n. (chess, informal) A refutation of an opening, or of previously published analysis.
• adj. (slang) Without any money, broke.

detachment

• n. (uncountable) The action of detaching; separation.
• n. (uncountable) The state of being detached or disconnected; insulation.
• n. (uncountable) Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.
• n. (uncountable) Absence of bias; impartiality; objectivity.
• n. (uncountable, military) The separation of a military unit from the main body for particular purpose or…
• n. (countable, military) The unit so dispatched.
• n. (countable, military) A permanent unit organized for special duties.
• n. (countable) Any smaller portion of a main body separately employed.

disunite

• v. (transitive) To cause disagreement or alienation among or within.
• v. (transitive) To separate, sever, or split.
• v. (intransitive) To disintegrate; to come apart.

divide

• v. (transitive) To split or separate (something) into two or more parts.
• v. (transitive) To share (something) by dividing it.
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number…
• v. (transitive, arithmetic) To be a divisor of.
• v. (intransitive) To separate into two or more parts.
• v. (intransitive, biology) Of a cell, to reproduce by dividing.
• v. To disunite in opinion or interest; to make discordant or hostile; to set at variance.
• v. (obsolete) To break friendship; to fall out.
• v. (obsolete) To have a share; to partake.
• v. To vote, as in the British Parliament, by the members separating themselves into two parties (as on opposite…
• v. To mark divisions on; to graduate.
• v. (music) To play or sing in a florid style, or with variations.
• n. A thing that divides.
• n. An act of dividing.
• n. A distancing between two people or things.
• n. (geography) A large chasm, gorge, or ravine between two areas of land.

harm

• n. physical Injury; hurt; damage.
• n. emotional or figurative hurt.
• n. detriment; misfortune.
• n. That which causes injury, damage, or loss.
• v. To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something.

hurt

• v. (intransitive) To be painful.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury.
• v. (transitive) To cause (somebody) emotional pain.
• v. (transitive) To undermine, impede, or damage.
• adj. Wounded, physically injured.
• adj. Pained.
• n. An emotional or psychological hurt (humiliation or bad experience).
• n. (archaic) A bodily injury causing pain; a wound or bruise.
• n. (archaic) injury; damage; detriment; harm.
• n. (heraldry) A roundel azure (blue circular spot).
• n. (engineering) A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.
• n. A husk.

injury

• n. damage to the body of a human or animal.
• n. violation of a person, their character, feelings, rights, property, or interests.
• n. (archaic) injustice.
• v. (obsolete) To wrong, to injure.

part

• n. A portion; a component.
• n. Duty; responsibility.
• n. (US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
• n. (Judaism) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3⅓ seconds.
• n. A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective…
• v. (intransitive) To leave.
• v. To cut hair with a parting; shed.
• v. (transitive) To divide in two.
• v. (intransitive) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To divide up; to share.
• v. (obsolete) To have a part or share; to partake.
• v. To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
• v. (obsolete) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
• v. To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
• v. To leave; to quit.
• v. (transitive, Internet) To leave (an IRC channel).
• adj. Fractional; partial.
• adv. Partly; partially; fractionally.

rift

• n. A chasm or fissure.
• n. A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
• n. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
• v. (intransitive) To form a rift.
• v. (transitive) To cleave; to rive; to split.
• v. (obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch.
• v. past participle of rive.

separate

• adj. Apart from (the rest); not connected to or attached to (anything else).
• adj. (followed by “from”) Not together (with); not united (to).
• v. (transitive) To divide (a thing) into separate parts.
• v. To disunite something from one thing; To disconnect.
• v. (transitive) To cause (things or people) to be separate.
• v. (intransitive) To divide itself into separate pieces or substances.
• v. (obsolete) To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.
• n. (usually in the plural) Anything that is sold by itself, especially an article of clothing.

separation

• n. The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
• n. The place at which a division occurs.
• n. An interval, gap or space that separates things.
• n. (law) An agreement terminating a relationship between husband and wife, but short of a divorce.
• n. (military) Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.

severance

• n. The act of severing or the state of being severed.
• n. A separation.
• n. A severance payment.

snap

• n. A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
• n. A sudden break.
• n. An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
• n. The act of making a snapping sound by pressing the thumb and a opposing finger of the same hand together…
• n. A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
• n. A photograph (an abbreviation of snapshot).
• n. The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
• n. A thin circular cookie or similar good.
• n. A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
• n. A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be…
• n. A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
• n. (American football) The passing of a football from the center to a back that begins play, a hike.
• n. (somewhat colloquial) A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
• n. (Britain, regional) A small meal, a snack; lunch.
• n. (uncountable) A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching…
• n. (obsolete) A greedy fellow.
• n. That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement;…
• n. briskness; vigour; energy; decision.
• n. (slang, archaic) Any circumstance out of which money may be made or an advantage gained. used primarily…
• n. (slang) Something that is easy or effortless.
• n. A snapper, or snap beetle.
• n. (physics, humorous) jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed…
• n. A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
• n. (colloquial) Something of no value.
• n. A visual message sent on the application Snapchat.
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To fracture or break apart suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with the teeth or bite.
• v. (intransitive) To attempt to seize with eagerness.
• v. (intransitive) To speak abruptly or sharply.
• v. (intransitive) To give way abruptly and loudly.
• v. (intransitive) To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
• v. (intransitive) To flash or appear to flash as with light.
• v. (intransitive) To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
• v. (intransitive, computing, graphical user interface) To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
• v. (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
• v. (transitive) To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
• v. (transitive) To say abruptly or sharply.
• v. (transitive, dated) To speak to abruptly or sharply; to treat snappishly; usually with up.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to emit a snapping sound.
• v. (transitive) To close something using a snap as a fastener.
• v. (transitive) To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing…
• v. (transitive) To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
• v. (transitive) To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
• v. (transitive, American football) To put the ball in play by passing it from the center to a back; to hike…
• v. To misfire.
• v. (cricket, transitive) To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
• interj. The winning cry at a game of snap.
• interj. (Britain) By extension from the card game, "I've got one the same." or similar.
• interj. (Britain) Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
• interj. (Canada, US) Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement…
• interj. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly…
• adj. (informal) Done, performed, made, etc. quickly and without deliberation.

tear

• v. (transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether…
• v. (transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.
• v. (transitive) To cause to lose some kind of unity or coherence.
• v. (transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.
• v. (transitive, often with off or out) To remove by tearing.
• v. (transitive, of structures, with down) To demolish.
• v. (intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.
• v. (intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.
• v. (intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.
• n. A hole or break caused by tearing.
• n. (slang) A rampage.
• n. A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.
• n. Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop,…
• n. (glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
• n. That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
• v. (intransitive) To produce tears.

trauma

• n. Any serious injury to the body, often resulting from violence or an accident.
• n. An emotional wound leading to psychological injury.
• n. An event that causes great distress.