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breach
/ˈbɹit͡ʃ/
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What does breach mean?
noun
- 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.
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
More meanings (13)
noun
- A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
- (figuratively) A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves.
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
- (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
- (archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
verb
- To make a breach in.
- To violate or break.
- To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
- To suffer a breach.
- To leap out of the water.
- (informal) To charge, convict or take legal action against someone due to not meeting a legal obligation.
proper noun
- A particular security exploit against HTTPS when using HTTP compression, based on the CRIME exploit.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbɹit͡ʃ/
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See this word in context.
Others swarmed in to fill the breach, but inch by inch, foot by foot we won nearer and nearer to our goal.
But you, sir, altered that, for some hour before you took me from the breach of the sea was my sister drowned.
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Then and there a fatal breach was made in the great theological barrier of the continued fixity of species since the creation.
The captain now had no difficulty before him, but to furnish his two boats, stop the breach of one, and man them.
It goes to that breach repeatedly, puts in its head, examines it, explores it with its antennae, nibbles the edges of it.