breach

breach has 15 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
• n.. 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.
• n.. 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.
• n.. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
• n.. A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
• n.. A bruise; a wound.
• n.. A hernia; a rupture.
• n.. A breaking out upon; an assault.
• v. t.. To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
• v. i.. To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.
• n.. a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
• n.. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"