breach

Meaning

1. A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence
2. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
3. A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
4. A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
5. A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
6. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves
7. A breaking out upon; an assault.
8. A bruise; a wound.
9. A hernia; a rupture.

gap

break

renege on

shell-hole

break-through

encroach on

renegue on

act of disobedience

hole in a wall

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɹiːtʃ/

From Middle English breche, from Old English bryċe (“fracture, breach”) and brǣċ (“breach, breaking, destruction”), from Proto-West Germanic *bruki, from Proto-Germanic *brukiz (“breach, fissure”) and *brēkō (“breaking”).

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