Rapture vs. Rupture
Rapturenoun
Extreme pleasure, happiness or excitement.
Rapturenoun
In some forms of fundamentalist Protestant eschatology, the event when Jesus returns and gathers the souls of living believers. (Usually "the rapture.")
Rapturenoun
(obsolete) The act of kidnapping or abducting, especially the forceful carrying off of a woman.
Rapturenoun
(obsolete) Rape; ravishment; sexual violation.
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(obsolete) The act of carrying, conveying, transporting or sweeping along by force of movement; the force of such movement; the fact of being carried along by such movement.
Rapturenoun
A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
Raptureverb
To cause to experience great happiness or excitement.
Raptureverb
To experience great happiness or excitement.
Raptureverb
(transitive) To take (someone) off the Earth and bring (them) to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
Raptureverb
To take part in the Rapture; to leave Earth and go to Heaven as part of the Rapture.
Raptureverb
(uncommon) To state (something, transitive) or talk (intransitive) rapturously.
Rapturenoun
A seizing by violence; a hurrying along; rapidity with violence.
Rapturenoun
The state or condition of being rapt, or carried away from one's self by agreeable excitement; violence of a pleasing passion; extreme joy or pleasure; ecstasy.
Rapturenoun
A spasm; a fit; a syncope; delirium.
Raptureverb
To transport with excitement; to enrapture.
Rapturenoun
a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;
Rapturenoun
a state of elated bliss
Rapturenoun
a feeling of intense pleasure or joy
Rapturenoun
expressions of intense pleasure or enthusiasm about something
Rapturenoun
(according to some millenarian teaching) the transporting of believers to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ
Raptureverb
(according to some millenarian teaching) transport (a believer) from earth to heaven at the Second Coming of Christ
Rapture
The rapture is an eschatological theological position held by some Christians, particularly within branches of American evangelicalism, consisting of an end-time event when all Christian believers who are alive, along with resurrected believers, will rise The origin of the term extends from Paul the Apostle's First Epistle to the Thessalonians in the Bible, in which he uses the Greek word harpazo (Ancient Greek: ἁρπάζω), meaning or and explains that believers in Jesus Christ will be snatched away from earth into the air.The idea of a rapture as it is currently defined is not found in historic Christianity, but is a relatively recent doctrine of Evangelical Protestantism. The term is most frequently used among Evangelical Protestant theologians in the United States.
Rupturenoun
A burst, split, or break.
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A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
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(medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
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(engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
Ruptureverb
To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
Ruptureverb
To dehisce irregularly.
Rupturenoun
The act of breaking apart, or separating; the state of being broken asunder; as, the rupture of the skin; the rupture of a vessel or fiber; the rupture of a lutestring.
Rupturenoun
Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture.
Rupturenoun
Hernia. See Hernia.
Rupturenoun
A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion.
Ruptureverb
To part by violence; to break; to burst; as, to rupture a blood vessel.
Ruptureverb
To produce a hernia in.
Ruptureverb
To suffer a breach or disruption.
Rupturenoun
state of being torn or burst open
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a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions);
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the act of making a sudden noisy break
Ruptureverb
separate or cause to separate abruptly;
