breach
noun
[ briːtʃ ]
• an act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.
• "a breach of confidence"
Similar:
contravention,
violation,
breaking,
non-observance,
infringement,
transgression,
neglect,
dereliction,
failure to observe,
non-compliance with,
infraction,
delict,
• a gap in a wall, barrier, or defence, especially one made by an attacking army.
• "a breach in the mountain wall"
Similar:
break,
rupture,
split,
crack,
fracture,
rent,
rift,
opening,
gap,
hole,
fissure,
cleft,
aperture,
breach
verb
• make a gap in and break through (a wall, barrier, or defence).
• "the river breached its bank"
Similar:
break (through),
burst (through),
rupture,
force itself through,
split,
bust,
• (of a whale) rise and break through the surface of the water.
• "we saw whales breaching in the distance"
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French breche, ultimately of Germanic origin; related to break1.
