Definition of "breach"
- noun
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.
A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture; a fissure.
A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
A breaking out upon; an assault.
A bruise; a wound.
A hernia; a rupture.
- verb
To make a breach in.
To violate or break.
, to break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
(of a whale) to leap clear out of the water.
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