Definition of breach

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Breach (n.) A breaking out upon; an assault.

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Infraction :: Infraction (n.) The act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law..
Sea Breach :: Sea breach () A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea.
Widen :: Widen (v. t.) To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking..
Heal :: Heal (v. t.) To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions..
Breach :: Breach (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale..
Prosecute :: Prosecute (v. t.) To pursue with the intention of punishing; to accuse of some crime or breach of law, or to pursue for redress or punishment, before a legal tribunal; to proceed against judicially; as, to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot..
Split :: Split (n.) A breach or separation, as in a political party; a division..
Assumpsit :: Assumpsit (n.) An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under seal. Common or indebitatus assumpsit is brought for the most part on an implied promise. Special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking..
Gap :: Gap (v. t.) To make an opening in; to breach.
Burst :: Burst (n.) A rupture or hernia; a breach.
Countermure :: Countermure (n.) A wall raised behind another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [R.] Cf. Contramure..
Laceration :: Laceration (n.) A breach or wound made by lacerating.
Pound-breach :: Pound-breach (n.) The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals.
Crack :: Crack (n.) A partial separation of parts, with or without a perceptible opening; a chink or fissure; a narrow breach; a crevice; as, a crack in timber, or in a wall, or in glass..
Breachy :: Breachy (a.) Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle..
Wound :: Wound (n.) To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like..
Discontinuation :: Discontinuation (n.) Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.
Breaching :: Breaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Breac.
Cheval-de-frise :: Cheval-de-frise (n.) A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc..
Disorder :: Disorder (n.) Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult.
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