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Meaning Of Breach
n.
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
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.
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.
n.
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters
themselves; surge; surf.
n.
A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
n.
A bruise; a wound.
n.
A hernia; a rupture.
n.
A breaking out upon; an assault.
v. t.
To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls
of a city.
v. i.
To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a
whale.