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| 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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