Definition of breach

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Breach (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale..

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Wound :: Wound (n.) A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like..
Heal :: Heal (v. t.) To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt; as, to heal dissensions..
Crack :: Crack (n.) Breach of chastity.
Disruption :: Disruption (n.) The act or rending asunder, or the state of being rent asunder or broken in pieces; breach; rent; dilaceration; rupture; as, the disruption of rocks in an earthquake; disruption of a state..
Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) To lose, or lose the right to, by some error, fault, offense, or crime; to render one's self by misdeed liable to be deprived of; to alienate the right to possess, by some neglect or crime; as, to forfeit an estate by treason; to forfeit reputation by a breach of promise; -- with to before the one acquiring what is forfeited..
Hersillon :: Hersillon (n.) A beam with projecting spikes, used to make a breach impassable..
Solution :: Solution (n.) The act of separating the parts of any body, or the condition of undergoing a separation of parts; disruption; breach..
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..
Traitorous :: Traitorous (a.) Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme..
Schismatize :: Schismatize (v. i.) To take part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.
Rupture :: Rupture (n.) Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture..
Condonation :: Condonation (n.) Forgiveness, either express or implied, by a husband of his wife or by a wife of her husband, for a breach of marital duty, as adultery, with an implied condition that the offense shall not be repeated..
Laceration :: Laceration (n.) A breach or wound made by lacerating.
Countermure :: Countermure (n.) A wall raised behind another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [R.] Cf. Contramure..
Breach :: Breach (n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf..
Fracture :: Fracture (n.) The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
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..
Screed :: Screed (n.) A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds..
Disorder :: Disorder (n.) Breach of public order; disturbance of the peace of society; tumult.
Crevasse :: Crevasse (n.) A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi..
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