Breach

Quick meaning: Breach is a noun meaning The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

Meaning

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

More Meanings

1. (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
2. A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
3. (figurative) A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
4. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves.
5. A breaking out upon; an assault.
6. 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.
7. (archaic) A bruise; a wound.

Example Sentences

breach of promise

There's fallen between him and my lord / An unkind breach.

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead."

A clear breach is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean breach is when everything on deck is swept away.

Word Forms

• breaches
• breaching
• breached

Synonyms for breach

Depending on context, synonyms include break, gap, rift, rupture, fissure, surge.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rupture, break, gap, rift, severance, transgress.

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