The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rupture \Rup"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ruptured; p. pr. & vb. n. Rupturing.]
To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel.
To produce a hernia in.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of rupture English)
Usage examples of "rupturing".
Bouillon and Desbois, two French physicians of the last century, both record examples of the uterus rupturing in the last stages of pregnancy and the mother recovering.
Fine, who mentions concussion rupturing the right ventricle, and Ludwig, who reports a similar accident.
The woman recovered, but died five months later from a second attack of intussusception, the ileum rupturing and peritonitis ensuing.
Then when he clicked three times on empty cylinders Roscoe caught a hapless duck by the throat and tried to pistolwhip it and punch its lights out and drag it to shore where he could knee-drop it, rupturing its spleen.