Dictionary Entry
breach
breach is a 6-letter English word with 15 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of breaking, in a figurative sense. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
- 5noun
A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
- 6noun
A bruise; a wound.
- 7noun
A hernia; a rupture.
- 8noun
A breaking out upon; an assault.
- 9transitive verb
To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
- 10intransitive verb
To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.
- 11noun
a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
- 12noun
a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
"they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
- 13noun
an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
- 14verb
make an opening or gap in
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- 15verb
act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
"offend all laws of humanity"
"violate the basic laws or human civilization"
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