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Breach   /britʃ/   Listen
Breach

noun
1.
A failure to perform some promised act or obligation.
2.
An opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification).
3.
A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions).  Synonyms: break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance.
verb
(past & past part. breached; pres. part. breaching)
1.
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"
2.
Make an opening or gap in.  Synonym: gap.



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"Breach" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the mistakes of his life. Chiefly through Hare's influence he took deacon's orders, and he worked under Hare at Hurstmonceaux for the best part of a year. Very soon afterwards he began to feel the breach growing wider between his own convictions and those taught by the Church. He never, consequently, took priest's orders. Through grievous ill-health his winters were passed at Bordeaux, in Italy, or at Madeira. He died at ...
— Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman • Giberne Sieveking
... and always disinclined to go to extremes, in action as well as in language, he was expected to exert a moderating influence in his committee; and this expectation was not disappointed so far as his efforts to prevent a final breach between the President and the Republican majority in Congress were concerned. But regarding the main question whether the "States lately in rebellion" should be fully restored to their self-governing functions and to full participation ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 • Various
... in this place that they waited the ebb and passed over dry. I observed that there were only two places in which it could have been possible for Sesostris and Ptolomy kings of Egypt, to have dug canals from the Nile to the Red-Sea: One of these by the breach of the mountains on the Egyptian coast 17 leagues above Toro, and 11 short of Suez; and the other by the end of the nook or bay on which Suez stands; as at this place the hills on both sides end, and all ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VI - Early English Voyages Of Discovery To America • Robert Kerr
... regulated by a strict by-law, a breach of which was punishable by death. Women were especially protected, a certain place being set apart for their exclusive use, as a place was set apart at one side of the lists of mediaeval tournaments for the Queen of Beauty and the ...
— The Golden Spears - And Other Fairy Tales • Edmund Leamy
... his pack. As he swung it before him, one arm thrust through a strap, he gave a startled cry. Half of one side of the pack was eaten away! He thrust his hands through the breach, and a moan of despair sobbed on his lips when he found that his food was gone. A thin trickle of flour ran through his fingers upon the snow. He pulled out a gnawed pound of bacon, a little tea—and ...
— The Honor of the Big Snows • James Oliver Curwood


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