'Breach' definitions:
Definition of 'breach'
From: WordNet
noun
A failure to perform some promised act or obligation
noun
An opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
noun
A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" [syn: rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out]
verb
Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise" [syn: transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, break] [ant: keep, observe]
verb
Make an opening or gap in [syn: gap, breach]
Definition of 'Breach'
From: GCIDE
- Breach \Breach\ (br[=e]ch), n. [OE. breke, breche, AS. brice, gebrice, gebrece (in comp.), fr. brecan to break; akin to Dan. br[ae]k, MHG. breche, gap, breach. See Break, and cf. Brake (the instrument), Brack a break] .
- 1. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf. [1913 Webster]
- The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. --2 Sam. v. 20. [1913 Webster]
- A clear breach implies that the waves roll over the vessel without breaking.
- A clean breach implies that everything on deck is swept away. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. [1913 Webster]
- There's fallen between him and my lord An unkind breach. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A bruise; a wound. [1913 Webster]
- Breach for breach, eye for eye. --Lev. xxiv. 20. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Med.) A hernia; a rupture. [1913 Webster]
- 8. A breaking out upon; an assault. [1913 Webster]
- The Lord had made a breach upon Uzza. --1. Chron. xiii. 11. [1913 Webster]
- 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. --Mozley. Abbott. [1913 Webster]
- Breach of promise, violation of one's plighted word, esp. of a promise to marry.
- Breach of trust, violation of one's duty or faith in a matter entrusted to one. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Rent; cleft; chasm; rift; aperture; gap; break; disruption; fracture; rupture; infraction; infringement; violation; quarrel; dispute; contention; difference; misunderstanding. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Breach'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Breach'
From: GCIDE
- Breach \Breach\, v. i. To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Breach'
From: Easton
- Breach an opening in a wall (1 Kings 11:27; 2 Kings 12:5); the fracture of a limb (Lev. 24:20), and hence the expression, "Heal, etc." (Ps. 60:2). Judg. 5:17, a bay or harbour; R.V., "by his creeks."
Synonyms of 'breach'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abysm,
- abyss,
- alienation,
- arroyo,
- atrocity,
- bad faith,
- bore,
- box canyon,
- breach of contract,
- breach of faith,
- breach of friendship,
- breach of privilege,
- breach of promise,
- breach of trust,
- break,
- break in,
- break into,
- break open,
- break through,
- breakage,
- breaking,
- burst,
- burst in,
- bust,
- bust in,
- caesura,
- canyon,
- cave in,
- cavity,
- cessation,
- chap,
- chasm,
- check,
- chimney,
- chink,
- chip,
- cleavage,
- cleave,
- cleft,
- cleuch,
- clough,
- col,
- contravene,
- contravention,
- coulee,
- couloir,
- crack,
- cranny,
- crevasse,
- crevice,
- crime,
- crime against humanity,
- cut,
- cut apart,
- cwm,
- deadly sin,
- defile,
- delinquency,
- dell,
- dereliction,
- difference,
- dike,
- disaffection,
- discontinuity,
- discord,
- disfavor,
- disharmony,
- disobedience,
- disregard,
- disrupt,
- disruption,
- dissension,
- disunion,
- disunity,
- ditch,
- divergence,
- dividedness,
- division,
- donga,
- draw,
- enormity,
- error,
- estrangement,
- evil,
- excavation,
- exfoliate,
- failure,
- falling-out,
- fault,
- felony,
- fissure,
- flaw,
- flume,
- force open,
- fracture,
- furrow,
- gap,
- gape,
- gash,
- genocide,
- gorge,
- groove,
- guilty act,
- gulch,
- gulf,
- gully,
- heavy sin,
- hiatus,
- hole,
- impropriety,
- incise,
- incision,
- indiscretion,
- inexpiable sin,
- infract,
- infraction,
- infringe,
- infringement,
- iniquity,
- injury,
- injustice,
- interim,
- intermission,
- interruption,
- interval,
- invade,
- joint,
- kloof,
- lacuna,
- lapse,
- leak,
- letup,
- lull,
- malefaction,
- malfeasance,
- malum,
- minor wrong,
- misdeed,
- misdemeanor,
- misfeasance,
- moat,
- mortal sin,
- neglect,
- nonfeasance,
- nonobservance,
- notch,
- nullah,
- offend,
- offense,
- omission,
- open,
- open fire,
- open rupture,
- open up,
- opening,
- outrage,
- pass,
- passage,
- pause,
- peccadillo,
- peccancy,
- penetrate,
- prize open,
- quarrel,
- ravine,
- recall of ambassadors,
- rent,
- rift,
- rime,
- rip,
- rive,
- rupture,
- scale,
- schism,
- scissure,
- seam,
- secession,
- separation,
- severance,
- sin,
- sin of commission,
- sin of omission,
- sinful act,
- slash,
- slice,
- slip,
- slit,
- slot,
- snap,
- splinter,
- split,
- split open,
- stove in,
- strife,
- suspension,
- tear,
- tear open,
- tort,
- transgress,
- transgression,
- trench,
- trespass,
- trip,
- unutterable sin,
- valley,
- variance,
- venial sin,
- violation,
- void,
- wadi,
- withdrawal,
- wrong
Words containing 'Breach'
- Breached,
- Breaching,
- A clean breach,
- A clear breach,
- Breach of faith,
- Breach of falth,
- Breach of peace,
- Breach of privilege,
- Breach of promise,
- Breach of the peace,
- Breach of trust,
- Clean breach,
- Clear breach,
- Practicable breach,
- Prison breach,
- Sea breach,
- anticipatory breach,
- breach of contract,
- breach of duty,
- breach of warranty,
- constructive breach,
- material breach,
- partial breach,
- Pound-breach,
- Spouse-breach,
- breach of the covenant of warranty,
- breach of trust with fraudulent intent