Canadian English Meaning of breach

breach

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Definitions and Meaning of breach in English

Wordnet

breach (n)

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)

Wordnet

breach (v)

act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

make an opening or gap in

Webster

breach (n.)

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

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.

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breach (v. t.)

To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.

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breach (v. i.)

To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.

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