rupturable

Able to tear

Rupturable describes something capable of being ruptured—able to break, burst, or tear under pressure.

The term appears most often in medical and technical contexts: a rupturable membrane, a rupturable seal.

The aneurysm was deemed rupturable and required immediate intervention.

fragile

delicate

Easily broken or harmed

crumbly · flimsy · breakable · splintery · friable · gossamer · diaphanous · tenuous · insubstantial · papery

tearable

tearable

Able to be ripped

cleavable · puncturable · rippable · sliceable · cuttable · severable · divisible · separable

failure

strain

Excessive stretching force

fracture · crack · burst · split · tear · snap · breach · puncture · blowout · herniation

burstable

poppable

Able to be burst

ballooning · bladder · blister · membrane · sac · vesicle · aneurysm · bubble · cyst · capsule

material

elastic

Able to stretch, rebounds

malleable · stretchable · deformable · yielding · supple · resilient · pliant · rubbery · spongy · membranous

Opposites
structural integrity under stress

rupturableunbreakable

Impossible to damage

indestructible · impervious · tear-resistant · shatterproof · invulnerable

permeability and penetrability

rupturableimpervious

Unable to be affected

impenetrable · impermeable · sealed · watertight · airtight

Family

corrupt, abrupt, corruption, disrupt, interrupt, erupt, eruption, rupture, interruption

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