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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

... but she knew what happened," said Soames. "I suspect this place is so top-secret that it's a breach of security to remember it outside. If anybody notices that little trick the kids can do, they'll be suspected of casually inspecting high-secrecy stuff while drawing pictures or ...

— Long Ago, Far Away • William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster

... bringing about a religious state of things in England that approached very nearly to Lutheranism. Taking advantage of Henry's pique and anger at the Pope's refusal to grant him a divorce from Katharine of Arragon, Cromwell set about widening the breach between England and Rome. After weakening the power of the bishops and lower clergy, he was able to force the oath of supremacy upon the nation, and having thus satisfied his master's pride and vanity, his next step was by the dissolution of the monasteries to pander to Henry's greed, while ...

— Studies from Court and Cloister • J.M. Stone

... manifest violation of the mutual and solemn pledge to protect and defend each other, given by the States respectively, on entering into the constitutional compact which formed the Union, and are a manifest breach of faith and a violation of the ...

— The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government • Jefferson Davis

... narrow passage at a place where the water was very deep as a decoy, and even dug trenches and pitfalls where the water was more shallow, placing pallisades in the deep water to prevent the approach of our vessels, and constructing parapets on both sides of the breach. They had also a number of canoes in readiness to sally out upon us on a concerted signal. When all these preparations were in readiness, they made a combined attack upon us in three several directions. One body advanced towards our rear from the side of ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. IV. • Robert Kerr

... convention, instigated by Calhoun, recommended the holding of a Southern convention at Nashville in June, 1850, to "adopt some mode of resistance". The "Resolutions" declared the Wilmot Proviso "such a breach of the federal compact as... will make it the duty... of the slave-holding states to treat the non-slave-holding states as enemies". The "Address" recommended "all the assailed states to provide in the last resort for their separate welfare by the formation of a compact and ...

— Webster's Seventh of March Speech, and the Secession Movement • Herbert Darling Foster

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