Definition of Breach

1. Noun. A failure to perform some promised act or obligation.

Generic synonyms: Failure
Specialized synonyms: Breach Of Contract, Breach Of Duty

2. Verb. Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises. "Break a promise"

3. Noun. An opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification).
Generic synonyms: Gap, Opening

4. Verb. Make an opening or gap in.
Exact synonyms: Gap
Generic synonyms: Open, Open Up
Derivative terms: Gap, Gap

5. Noun. A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions). "They hoped to avoid a break in relations"
Exact synonyms: Break, Falling Out, Rift, Rupture, Severance
Specialized synonyms: Schism
Generic synonyms: Breakup, Detachment, Separation
Derivative terms: Break, Sever

Definition of Breach

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

2. v. t. To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.

3. v. i. To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.

Definition of Breach

1. Noun. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense. ¹

2. Noun. (legal) 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. ¹

3. Noun. 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. ¹

4. Noun. A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. ¹

5. Noun. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf. ¹

6. Noun. A breaking out upon; an assault. ¹

7. Noun. (archaic) A bruise; a wound. ¹

8. Noun. (archaic) A hernia; a rupture. ¹

9. Verb. (transitive) To make a breach in. ¹

10. Verb. (transitive) To violate or break. ¹

11. Verb. (transitive nautical of the sea), to break into a ship or into a coastal defence ¹

12. Verb. (intransitive) (context: of a whale) to leap clear out of the water ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Breach

1. to break through [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Medical Definition of Breach

1. Origin: OE. Breke, breche, AS. Brice, gebrice, gebrece (in comp), fr. Brecan to break; akin to Dan. Braek, MHG. Breche, gap, breach. See Break, and cf. Brake (the instrument), Brack a break] . 1. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense. 2. 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. 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. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead." (Shak) 4. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf. "The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters." (2 Sam. V. 20) A clear breach implies that the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean breach implies that everything on deck is swept away. 5. A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. "There's fallen between him and my lord An unkind breach." (Shak) 6. A bruise; a wound. "Breach for breach, eye for eye." (Lev. Xxiv. 20) 7. A hernia; a rupture. 8. A breaking out upon; an assault. " The Lord had made a breach upon Uzza." (1. Chron. Xiii. 11) Breach of falth, a breaking, or a failure to keep, an expressed or implied promise; a betrayal of confidence or trust. Breach of peace, disorderly conduct, disturbing the public peace. Breach of privilege, an act or default in violation of the privilege or either house of Parliament, of Congress, or of a State legislature, as, for instance, by false swearing before a committee. - Breach of promise, violation of one's plighted word, especially. Of a promise to marry. Breach of trust, violation of one's duty or faith in a matter entrusted to one. Synonym: Rent, cleft, chasm, rift, aperture, gap, break, disruption, fracture, rupture, infraction, infringement, violation, quarrel, dispute, contention, difference, misunderstanding. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Breach

brazil nut
brazil wood
brazilein
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braziletto
brazilettoes
brazilettos
brazilian ironwood
brazilianite
brazilin
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brazils
brazilwood
brazilwoods
brazing
breach (current term)
breach of contract
breach of duty
breach of promise
breach of the covenant of warranty
breach of the peace
breach of trust
breach of trust with fraudulent intent
breach of warranty
breachable
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breachers
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Literary usage of Breach

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"In an action for damages for the buyer's breach of a written contract to accept and pay for phosphate rock, a charge that defendant had the burden to ..."

2. Principles of the English Law of Contract and of Agency in Its Relation to by William Reynell Anson (1906)
"CHAPTER III Discharge of Contract by breach 371. Results arising from breach of contract. If one of two parties to a contract breaks the obligation which ..."

3. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1906)
"breach or violation of blockade is the un- Definition allowed ingress or egress of a vessel in spite of the °|breach blockade. The attempted breach is, ..."

4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1916)
"PROVABLE DEBT— DAMAGES FOB ANTICIPATORY breach OF CONTRACT. 2. The filing of an involuntary petition In bankruptcy against a baggage transfer and livery ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1887)
"Hill, 61, that a plaintiff may rightfully recover a loss of profits as a part of the damages for breach of a special [455] contract, but in such a case the ..."

6. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Gardiner Hammond (1890)
"No one feels any difficulty in identifying a right of contract before and after breach, even a right of property to a physical thing, in most cases, ..."

7. Briefs on the Law of Insurance by Roger William Cooley, Lawrence Vold (1905)
"Effect of misrepresentation or breach of warranty as dependent on ... (d) breach of warranty as affected by knowledge and intent of applicant. f») ..."

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