Breach

/ˈbɹiːt͡ʃ/ · noun

Meaning

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..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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

Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 after torrential rain and thunderstorms. The thousands of gallons of water that cascaded onto the railway line below washed away track, ballast and overhead line equipment, and undermined embankments along a 300-metre section of Scotland's busiest rail link.

But were the poet to make a total difression from his subject, and introduce a new actor, nowise connected with the personages, the imagination, feeling a breach in transition, would enter coldly into the new scene;

breach of promise

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

For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.

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

And Dauid came to Baal-Perazim, and Daiud ſmote them there, and ſaid, The Lord hath broken foorth vpon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters.

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• breaches
• breaching
• breached

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