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Breach

noun

A failure to perform some promised act or obligation.

An opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification).

A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions). Synonyms: break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance.

verb

(past & past part. breached; pres. part. breaching)

Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises. Synonyms: break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate. "Violate the basic laws or human civilization" , "Break a law" , "Break a promise"

Make an opening or gap in. Synonym: gap.

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"Breach" Quotes from Famous Books

... not unlike a blow of a heavy sea, such as in the series of preceding storms we had often experienced, was taken for the same; but we were soon undeceived by her striking more violently than before, which laid her upon her beam-ends, the sea making a fair breach over her. Every person that now could stir was presently upon the quarter-deck; and many even of those were alert upon this occasion that had not shewed their faces upon deck for above two months before: Several poor wretches, who were in ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 • Robert Kerr

... solemnly: "I go first," she said, in a tone which might have befitted the leader of a forlorn hope, mounting a breach in the van of ...

— Jane Eyre - an Autobiography • Charlotte Bronte

... harmonious. . . . This bill frustrates this adjustment. It intervenes between capital and labor and attempts to settle questions of political economy through the agency of numerous officials, whose interest it will be to foment discord between the two races, for as the breach widens their employment will continue and when the breach is ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... sleep, in simple trust that all would be well with her in the morning of the general awakening. I retain her wedding-ring, the gift of Donald Roy. It is a sorely-wasted fragment, worn through on one of the sides, for she had toiled long and hard in her household, and the breach in the circlet, with its general thinness, testify to the fact; but its gold is still bright and pure; and, though not much of a relic-monger, I would hesitate to exchange it for the Holy Coat of Treves, or for waggon-loads of the wood ...

— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller

... tucked at the ends over and around the part first confined about the Waiste. a Small roab which does not reach the Waiste is their usial and only garment commonly worn besides this just mentioned. when the weather is a little worm the roab is thrown aside, and the latter truss or breach clout constitutes the whole of their apparreal. this is a much more indesant article than the tissue of bark, and bearly covers the Mons versus, to which it is drawn So close that the whole Shape is plainly perseived. The Houses are Similar ...

— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

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