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Definition of Breach
1. Verb. Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises. "Break a promise"
Generic synonyms: Disrespect
Specialized synonyms: Sin, Transgress, Trespass, Blunder, Boob, Drop The Ball, Goof, Sin, Conflict, Contravene, Infringe, Run Afoul, Trespass, Intrude, Trespass
Antonyms: Keep
Derivative terms: Infraction, Offence, Offender, Offense, Offensive, Offensive, Transgression, Transgressor, Violable, Violative, Violator
2. Noun. A failure to perform some promised act or obligation.
3. Verb. Make an opening or gap in.
4. Noun. An opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification).
5. Noun. A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions). "They hoped to avoid a break in relations"
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
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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)
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Breach
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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