1. breach - Noun
2. breach - Verb
3. Breach - Proper noun
Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.
A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
A bruise; a wound.
A hernia; a rupture.
To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFew things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. William Hazlitt
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Mahatma Gandhi
The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. Hugo Black
Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve. Bob Riley
Being covered in white paint,you demonstrate behaviour intended to create a public nuisance,which did in fact cause offence to members of the public,and created a breach of the peace and public order. Günter Brus
I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me. Patrick Stewart