breach

Plural: breaches

Noun

• a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
• an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
• a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
• A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence
• The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
• A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
• A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
• A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
• A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves
• A breaking out upon; an assault.
• A bruise; a wound.
• A hernia; a rupture.

Verb

Verb Forms: breached, breaching, breaches

• To make a gap in and break through a wall or barrier.
• act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
• make an opening or gap in
• To make a breach in.
• To violate or break.
• To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
• To suffer a breach.
• To leap out of the water.
• To charge, convict or take legal action against someone due to not meeting a legal obligation.

Examples

• A clear breach is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean breach is when everything on deck is swept away.
• breach of promise
• I needed to BREACH my opponent’s defenses to open a path to the triple word score.
• They breached the outer wall, but not the main one.

Synonyms

break, falling out, gap, go against, infract, offend, rift, rupture, severance, transgress, violate, fissure, surf, surge

Antonyms

keep

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