Breach(n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
Breach(n.) Specifically: 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.
Breach(n.) 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.
Breach(n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
Breach(n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
Breach(n.) A bruise; a wound.
Breach(n.) A hernia; a rupture.
Breach(n.) A breaking out upon; an assault.
Breach(v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.
Breach(v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
Breached(imp. & p. p.) of Breach
Breaching(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breach
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