Thesaurus: breach

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1. n. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. n. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
5. n. A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
6. n. A bruise; a wound.
7. n. A hernia; a rupture.
8. n. A breaking out upon; an assault.
9. v. t. To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
10. v. i. To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.
11. n. a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
12. n. an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)