dī-rumpo or disr-, rūpi, ruptum, 3
* V. a., to break or dash to pieces; to break, burst asunder (rare but class.).
* Lit.: tabulā caput,Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 37: ne medius disrumpar miser,id. Curc. 2, 1, 7: cum se in nubem induerint (venti) ejusque tenuissimam quamque partem coeperint dividere atque disrumpere,Cic. Div. 2, 19, 44: imagines,Tac. H. 1, 55: homo diruptus, i. e. that has a rupture (c. c. dirutus), Cic. Phil. 13, 12.—In an obscene sense, Plaut. Cas. 4, 3, 11 al.
* Trop.
* To break off, sunder, sever: amicitias exorsa aliqua offensione dirumpimus,Cic. Lael. 22 fin.; cf.: humani generis societatem,id. Off. 3, 5, 21: regnum,Vulg. 3 Reg. 11, 11.—And in a figure borrowed from a play (in which two persons tugged at the ends of a rope until it broke, or one of them fell to the ground): cave dirumpatis, i. e. the rope or thread of your recollection,Plaut. Poen. prol. 117.— Esp. freq.
* Pass. in colloquial lang., to burst with envy, etc.: unum omnia posse dirumpuntur ii qui, etc.,Cic. Att. 4, 16, 10; cf.: infinito fratris tui plausu dirumpitur,id. Fam. 12, 2, 2: dirumpor dolore,id. Att. 7, 12, 3; cf. risu,App. M. 3, p. 130, 3.—Once act.: dirupi me paene, I nearly burst myself with earnest speaking, Cic. Fam. 7, 1, 4.

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