ruption

noun /ˈɹʌpʃən/

1. A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.

   The plenitude of vessels or plethora causes an extravasion of blood, by ruption or apertion

2. A commotion.

   rare

   "Would you? You might insist long long enough before you would get that done. I fancy," replied Peter Dyer, who was much inclined to assist in a "ruption," as he termed it, in the morning, as he had been in the night before.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Latin ruptio, from rumpere, ruptum (“to break”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry ruption (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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