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Breach

noun

A failure to perform some promised act or obligation.

An opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification).

A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions). Synonyms: break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance.

verb

(past & past part. breached; pres. part. breaching)

Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises. Synonyms: break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate. "Violate the basic laws or human civilization" , "Break a law" , "Break a promise" Antonym: keep.

Make an opening or gap in. Synonym: gap.

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"Breach" Quotes from Famous Books

... years." This was pleasant—for the bridegroom! To work two years for a wife, undergo a severe course of willow sprouts at the close of his apprenticeship, and then have no security against a possible breach of promise on the part of the bride. His faith in her constancy must be unlimited. The intention of the whole ceremony was evidently to give the woman an opportunity to marry the man or not, as she chose, since it was obviously impossible for ...

— Tent Life in Siberia • George Kennan

... property that was not contraband. But they made havoc with the ideas that neutrals were entitled to trade with both belligerents, and that neither belligerent could intercept commerce which did not directly serve for military purposes. It was not, for instance, a breach of neutrality to sell munitions to a belligerent, though belligerents were entitled to seize them if they could; and we ourselves bought vast quantities from the United States. America was, however, deeply attached to that "freedom of the seas" ...

— A Short History of the Great War • A.F. Pollard

... his few pounds of food two hundred miles on his back. That was hospitality to make your Southern article look pretty small. If there was no one at home, you ate what you needed. There was but one unpardonable breach of etiquette—to fail to leave dry kindlings. I'm afraid of the transitory stage we're coming to—that epoch of chaos between the death of the old and the birth of the new. Frankly, I like the old way best. I love the license of it. I love ...

— The Spoilers • Rex Beach

... displaying its different sides in one invariable light. The general impression left on the mind (and this is apt to be a truer one than any drawn from single examples) is that the duty is one which is owed to custom, that the passion leads to a breach of some convention settled by common consent,[201] and accordingly it is an outraged society whose figure looms in the background, rather than an offended God. At most it was one god of many, and meanwhile another might be friendly. In the Greek epic, the gods are partisans, they ...

— Among My Books • James Russell Lowell

... intents and purposes as theirs, and my father as only so far and so objectionably concerned in the matter that he gave John Binder a yearly job in patching up the wall which it took them three months' trouble to kick a breach in. ...

— We and the World, Part I - A Book for Boys • Juliana Horatia Ewing

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