Breach

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An opening, tear, or rupture.
  • noun. A gap or rift, especially in a solid structure such as a dike or fortification.
  • noun. A violation or infraction, as of a contract, law, legal obligation, or promise.
  • noun. A breaking up or disruption of friendly relations; an estrangement.
  • noun. A leap of a whale from the water.
  • noun. The breaking of waves or surf.
  • intransitive verb. To make a hole or gap in; break through.
  • intransitive verb. To break or violate (an agreement, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To leap from the water.
  • intransitive verb. To develop a hole or opening. Used especially of protective embankments.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of breaking: now used only figuratively of the violation or neglect of a law, contract, or any other obligation, or of a custom.
  • noun. An opening made by breaking down a portion of a solid body, as a wall, a dike, or a river-bank; a rupture; a break; a gap.
  • noun. A break or interruption in utterance.
  • noun. A rupture of friendly relations; difference; quarrel.
  • noun. Infraction; violation; infringement: as, a breach of the peace, of a promise, or of a contract.
  • noun. Injury; would; bruise.
  • noun. The breaking of waves; the dashing of surf.
  • To make a breach or opening in.
  • To spring from the water, as a whale.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.
  • transitive verb. To make a breach or opening in.
  • noun. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
  • noun. Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
  • noun. A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.
  • noun. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
  • noun. implies that the waves roll over the vessel without breaking.
  • noun. implies that everything on deck is swept away.
  • noun. A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
  • noun. A bruise; a wound.
  • noun. A hernia; a rupture.
  • noun. A breaking out upon; an assault.
  • noun. a breaking, or a failure to keep, an expressed or implied promise; a betrayal of confidence or trust.
  • noun. disorderly conduct, disturbing the public peace.
  • noun. an act or default in violation of the privilege or either house of Parliament, of Congress, or of a State legislature, as, for instance, by false swearing before a committee.
  • noun. violation of one's plighted word, esp. of a promise to marry.
  • noun. violation of one's duty or faith in a matter entrusted to one.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
  • noun. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
  • noun. A breaking out upon; an assault.
  • noun. A bruise; a wound.
  • noun. A hernia; a rupture.
  • verb. To make a breach in.
  • verb. To violate or break.
  • verb. , to break into a ship or into a coastal defence
  • verb. (of a whale) to leap clear out of the water
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
  • Word Usage
    "It suggests a much more active decision to end the treaty and is much closer to the term breach than the term withdraw."
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    gap  open  open up  opening  
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    Beach  Peach  Teach  beach  beech  
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