ALL meanings of breach
breach
B b - verb breach If you breach an agreement, a law, or a promise, you break it. 3
- variable noun breach A breach of an agreement, a law, or a promise is an act of breaking it. 3
- countable noun breach A breach in a relationship is a serious disagreement which often results in the relationship ending. 3
- verb breach If someone or something breaches a barrier, they make an opening in it, usually leaving it weakened or destroyed. 3
- verb breach If you breach someone's security or their defences, you manage to get through and attack an area that is heavily guarded and protected. 3
- verb breach Breach is also a noun. 3
- noun breach a crack, break, or rupture 3
- noun breach a breaking, infringement, or violation of a promise, obligation, etc 3
- noun breach any severance or separation 3
- noun breach a gap in an enemy's fortifications or line of defence created by bombardment or attack 3
- noun breach the act of a whale in breaking clear of the water 3
- noun breach the breaking of sea waves on a shore or rock 3
- verb breach to break through or make an opening, hole, or incursion in 3
- verb breach to break a promise, law, etc 3
- verb breach (of a whale) to break clear of the water 3
- noun breach a breaking or being broken 3
- noun breach a failure to observe the terms, as of a law or promise, the customary forms, etc.; violation; infraction 3
- noun breach an opening made by a breakthrough, as in a wall, line of defense, etc. 3
- noun breach a broken or torn place or part 3
- noun breach a breaking of waves over or upon a ship, sea wall, etc. 3
- noun breach a whale's leap clear of the water 3
- noun breach a break in friendly relations 3
- verb transitive breach to make a breach in; break open or through 3
- verb transitive breach to break or violate (a contract, covenant, etc.) 3
- intransitive verb breach to leap clear of the water 3
- noun breach the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture. 1
- noun breach an infraction or violation, as of a law, trust, faith, or promise. 1
- noun breach a gap made in a wall, fortification, line of soldiers, etc.; rift; fissure. 1
- noun breach a severance of friendly relations. 1
- noun breach the leap of a whale above the surface of the water. 1
- noun breach Archaic. the breaking of waves; the dashing of surf. 1
- noun breach Obsolete. wound1 . 1
- verb with object breach to make a breach or opening in. 1
- verb with object breach to break or act contrary to (a law, promise, etc.). 1
- verb without object breach (of a whale) to leap partly or completely out of the water, head first, and land on the back or belly with a resounding splash. 1
- noun breach breaking of a law 1
- noun breach rupture in relations 1
- noun breach physical gap, rupture 1
- transitive verb breach rule: break 1
- transitive verb breach make an opening 1
- intransitive verb breach whale: jump from water 1
- noun breach 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. 0
- noun breach A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out. 0
- noun breach A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf. 0
- noun breach A breaking out upon; an assault. 0
- noun breach (archaic) A bruise; a wound. 0
- noun breach (archaic) A hernia; a rupture. 0
- noun breach (law) 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. 0
- noun breach (figuratively) A difference in opinions, social class etc. 0
- noun breach The act of breaking, in a figurative sense. 0