breach
Meaning of breach
noun
- an act of breaking or failing to observe a law, agreement, or code of conduct.
a breach of confidence
they alleged breach of copyright
- a gap in a wall, barrier, or defence, especially one made by an attacking army.
a breach in the mountain wall
- make a gap in and break through (a wall, barrier, or defence).
the river breached its bank
- (of a whale) rise and break through the surface of the water.
we saw whales breaching in the distance
Middle English: from Old French breche, ultimately of Germanic origin; related to break1.
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Hyphenation of breach
breach
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- breach is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
breach synonyms
Meaning rupture:
rupture, break, severance, rift
Meaning transgress:
transgress, offend, infract, violate, break
Meaning gap:
Meaning an action which offends against a law, treaty, or other ruling:
Meaning the action of violating someone or something:
Meaning separate or cause to separate into pieces as a result of a blow, shock, or strain:
Meaning the action of breaking the terms of a law, agreement, etc.; violation:
Meaning an act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offence:
Meaning the state of being uncared for:
Meaning the state of having been abandoned and become dilapidated:
Meaning a violation or infringement of a law or agreement:
Meaning a violation of the law; a tort:
Meaning a tear, crack, or fissure in something, especially down the middle or along the grain:
Meaning a line on the surface of something along which it has split without breaking apart:
Meaning a crack or break in a hard object or material, typically a bone or a rock stratum:
Meaning a tenant's regular payment to a landlord for the use of property or land:
Meaning a space or gap that allows passage or access:
Meaning an aperture passing through something:
Meaning a long, narrow opening or line of breakage made by cracking or splitting, especially in rock or earth:
Meaning past and past participle of cleave1:
Meaning an opening, hole, or gap:
Meaning a woman's chest as measured around her breasts:
Anagrams of breach
BArchE, barche, brache, chaber
Words that rhyme with breach
each, Beach, beach, seabeach, Deach, keach, Leach, bleach, cailleach, cleach, empleach, horseleach, impleach, leach, nonbleach, overbleach, photobleach, pleach, rebleach, meach, appeach, depeach, empeach, impeach, peach, afterbreach, areach, bepreach, counterpreach, creach, earreach, embreach, eyereach, faithbreach, forereach, grithbreach, gunreach, headreach, nonbreach, outpreach, outreach, overpreach, overreach, poundbreach, preach, reach, repreach, underreach, unpreach, upreach
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