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breach
1. n. Brèche.
2. n. (Figuré) Action de briser.
3. n. (Droit) Violation d'une loi, d'une obligation; Inexécution.
A breach of contract. - Rupture de contrat.
A breach of promise. - Rupture de promesse de mariage.
4. n. Rupture d'une relation amicale.
5. n. Ecchymose, blessure.
6. n. Hernie.
7. n. Assaut.
8. v. Ébrécher.
anglais > anglais
breach
1. 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
2. n. A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
3. n. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves
A clear breach is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean breach is when everything on deck is swept away.
4. n. A breaking out upon; an assault.
5. n. (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
6. n. (archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
7. n. (legal) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment
breach of promise
8. n. (figurative) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
9. n. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
10. v. To make a breach in.
They breached the outer wall, but not the main one.
11. v. To violate or break.
12. v. (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
13. v. (intransitive, of a whale) To leap clear out of the water.

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It was a breach of trust.  A clear breach of ethics and my professionalism.  Tell me, do you think it's all right for a girl to marry a guy who's killed her father, or is that considered a breach of social etiquette?  His wife was wrongly accused of a breach of the peace and later claimed she had been assaulted.  This is a flagrant breach of the rule of law.

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