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n. An opening, a tear, or a rupture.

n. A gap or rift, especially in or as if in a solid structure such as a dike or fortification.

n. A violation or infraction, as of a law, a legal obligation, or a promise.

n. A breaking up or disruption of friendly relations; an estrangement.

n. A leap of a whale from the water.

n. The breaking of waves or surf.

v. To make a hole or gap in; break through.

v. To break or violate (an agreement, for example).

verb-intransitive. To leap from the water: waiting for the whale to breach.

n. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

n. 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 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.

n. A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.

n. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf.

n. A breaking out upon; an assault.

n. A bruise; a wound.

n. A hernia; a rupture.

v. To make a breach in.

v. To violate or break.

v. , to break into a ship or into a coastal defence

v. (of a whale) to leap clear out of the water

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.

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. To make a breach or opening in.

verb-intransitive. To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.

n. 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.

n. 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.

n. A break or interruption in utterance.

n. A rupture of friendly relations; difference; quarrel.

n. Infraction; violation; infringement: as, a breach of the peace, of a promise, or of a contract.

n. Injury; would; bruise.

n. The breaking of waves; the dashing of surf.

To make a breach or opening in.

To spring from the water, as a whale.

n. an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)

n. a failure to perform some promised act or obligation

v. make an opening or gap in

n. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

v. act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

"It suggests a much more active decision to end the treaty and is much closer to the term breach than the term withdraw."

breached    breaches    breaching   

opening    gap    open    open up   

break    surf    violation    wound    breach of arrestment    breach of duty    breach of covenant    breach of the peace    breach of arrest    breach of trust   

breached    breaching   

rift    dispute    violation    contention    disruption    fracture    infringement    misunderstanding    infraction    aperture   

Beach    Peach    Teach    beach    beech    beseech    bleach    breech    creach    each   

violation    injustice    neglect    abuse    offence    disregard    fraud    failure    mistake    injury