BREACH

breach

(noun) a failure to perform some promised act or obligation

rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out

(noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); “they hoped to avoid a break in relations”

breach

(noun) an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)

gap, breach

(verb) make an opening or gap in

transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, break

(verb) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; “offend all laws of humanity”; “violate the basic laws or human civilization”; “break a law”; “break a promise”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

breach (plural breaches)

A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence

Synonyms: break, rupture, fissure

A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.

A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves

Synonyms: surge, surf

A breaking out upon; an assault.

(archaic) A bruise; a wound.

(archaic) A hernia; a rupture.

(legal) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment

(figurative) A difference in opinions, social class etc.

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

Synonyms

• break

• rift

• rupture

• gap

Verb

breach (third-person singular simple present breaches, present participle breaching, simple past and past participle breached)

(transitive) To make a breach in.

(transitive) To violate or break.

(transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.

(intransitive, of a whale) To leap out of the water.

Anagrams

• Bacher

Etymology

Proper noun

BREACH

(computing) A particular security exploit against HTTPS when using HTTP compression, based on the CRIME exploit.

Anagrams

• Bacher

Source: Wiktionary

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Breach, n. Etym: [OE. breke, breche, AS. brice, gebrice, gebrece (in comp.), fr. brecan to break; akin to Dan. bræk, MHG. breche, gap, breach. See Break, and cf. Brake (the instrument), Brack a break] .

1. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

2. 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.

3. 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. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead. Shak.

4. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf. The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. 2 Sam. v. 20 A clear breach implies that the waves roll over the vessel without breaking.

– A clean breach implies that everything on deck is swept away. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

5. A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. There's fallen between him and my lord An unkind breach. Shak.

6. A bruise; a wound. Breach for breach, eye for eye. Lev. xxiv. 20

7. (Med.)

Definition: A hernia; a rupture.

8. A breaking out upon; an assault. The Lord had made a breach upon Uzza. 1. Chron. xiii. 11 Breach of falth, a breaking, or a failure to keep, an expressed or implied promise; a betrayal of confidence or trust.

– Breach of peace, disorderly conduct, disturbing the public peace.

– Breach of privilege, an act or default in violation of the privilege or either house of Parliament, of Congress, or of a State legislature, as, for instance, by false swearing before a committee. Mozley. Abbott. - Breach of promise, violation of one's plighted word, esp. of a promise to marry.

– Breach of trust, violation of one's duty or faith in a matter entrusted to one.

Syn.

– Rent; cleft; chasm; rift; aperture; gap; break; disruption; fracture; rupture; infraction; infringement; violation; quarrel; dispute; contention; difference; misunderstanding.

Breach, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Breached ( ; p. pr. & vb. n. Breaching.]

Definition: To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.

Breach, v. i.

Definition: To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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