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▪ I. disrupture, n.|dɪsˈrʌptjʊə(r)| [f. disrupt v., after rupture.] The action of disrupting or bursting asunder; disruption.
1785Jefferson Notes Virginia (1787) 27 The evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impression. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 660 This disrupture discovered the vein of yellow metal at a great depth. 1804Watt in Phil. Trans. XCIV. 308 Effected..by the apparent disrupture of rocks. 1828Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. 122/2 This disrupture of ordinary ties. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 603 The consequent splitting and disrupture of the medullary sheath. ▪ II. disˈrupture, v. [f. the n.: cf. rupture vb.] trans. To break off or asunder; to divide by a rupture. Hence disˈruptured ppl. a.
1828Webster cites Med. Repos. for Disruptured. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge (1859) 299 A huge mass of the grey cliff above was disruptured. 1838Poe A.G. Pym Wks. 1864 IV. 177 The ruins of the disruptured cliff. 1869Contemp. Rev. XII. 184 These virtues exercise their beneficent influence in each portion of the disruptured church. |