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.
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.
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
A bruise; a wound.
A hernia; a rupture.
A breaking out upon; an assault.
To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Mahatma Gandhi
The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire. Mitt Romney
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. William Hazlitt
Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others. Simon Mainwaring
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve. Bob Riley
breach in Dutch is een bres slaan, een bres slaan in
breach in German is Verletzung
breach in Portuguese is ruptura
breach in Spanish is brecha
breach in Swedish is brytande
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