Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Rupture \Rup"ture\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ruptured}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Rupturing}.]
   1. To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a
      blood vessel.

   2. To produce a hernia in.