breach
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.
Noun 4 meanings
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.
“breach of promise”
A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
Verb 4 meanings
To make a breach in.
“They breached the outer wall, but not the main one.”
To violate or break.
“breach an agreement”
To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
To suffer a breach.
Etymology
From Middle English breche, from Old English bryċe (“fracture, breach”) and brǣċ (“breach, breaking, destruction”), from Proto-West Germanic *bruki, from Proto-Germanic *brukiz (“breach, fissure”) and *brēkō (“breaking”).
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BREACH at a glance
BREACH has 6 letters and scores 13 points in Scrabble (B 3 + R 1 + E 1 + A 1 + C 3 + H 4) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,667 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with breach
All rhymesOne letter away
- BREATH11
- PREACH13
- BLEACH13
- BREECH13
- BROACH13
- CREACH13
- AREACH11
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