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Definition of 'breach'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) breach
an infraction or violation, as of a law, trust, faith, or promise.

2.  breach
a gap made in a wall, fortification, line of soldiers, etc.; rift; fissure.

3.  breach
the act or a result of breaking; break or rupture.

4.  breach
a severance of friendly relations.

5.  breach
the leap of a whale above the surface of the water.

6.  breach
Archaic. the breaking of waves.

7.  breach
Obs. a wound.

8. (v.t.) breach
to make a breach or opening in.

9.  breach
to break or act contrary to.

10. (v.i.) breach
(of a whale) to leap out of the water and land with a loud splash.

Etymology: (bef. 1000; ME breche, OE bræc breaking; see break)

Definition of 'breach'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) breach
a failure to perform some promised act or obligation

2. (noun) breach
an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)

3. (verb) rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out
a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
"they hoped to avoid a break in relations"

4. (verb) transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, break
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"

5. (verb) gap, breach
make an opening or gap in

Definition of 'breach'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) breach
the act of breaking, in a figurative sense

2. (noun) breach
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. (noun) breach
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

4. (noun) breach
a breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf

5. (noun) breach
a breaking up of amicable relations; rupture

6. (noun) breach
a bruise; a wound

7. (noun) breach
a hernia; a rupture

8. (noun) breach
a breaking out upon; an assault

9. (verb) breach
to make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city

10. (verb) breach
to break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale

Translation of 'breach'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a breaking (of a promise etc).
Afrikaans: breuk, verbreking	Arabic: نكث الوعد	Bulgarian: нарушение
Brazilian: quebra	Czech: porušení	German: der Bruch
Danish: brud	Greek: αθέτηση (υπόσχεσης κτλ.)	Spanish: incumplimiento
Estonian: murdmine, rikkumine	Farsi: نقض؛ تخلف	Finnish: rikkomus
French: manquementà	Hebrew: מְעִילָה, הֲפָרָה	Hindi: वादा इत्यादि तोड़ना
Croatian: lom	Hungarian: megszegés	Indonesian: pelanggaran
Icelandic: brot, rof	Italian: il venir meno	Japanese: 違反
Korean: 위반, 파기	Lithuanian: sulaužymas	Latvian: (likumu u.tml.) pārkāpšan
Malay: mungkir janji	Dutch: breuk	Norwegian: brudd
Polish: złamanie	Persian: نقض؛ تخلف	Pashto: مخالفت ، تخلف ، ماتونه
Portuguese: falta	Romanian: încălcare	Russian: нарушение
Slovak: porušenie	Slovenian: kršitev	Serbian: prekršaj
Swedish: brytning, brytande	Thai: การละเมิด (สัญญา)	Turkish: bozma, ihlâl
Taiwanese: 違反	Ukrainian: порушення	Urdu: وعدہ خلافی
Vietnamese: sự thất hứa	Chinese: 违反
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