BREACH
Dictionary entry overview: What does breach mean?
• BREACH (noun)
The noun BREACH has 3 senses:
1. a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
2. an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
3. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
Familiarity information: BREACH used as a noun is uncommon.
• BREACH (verb)
The verb BREACH has 2 senses:
1. act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
2. make an opening or gap in
Familiarity information: BREACH used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BREACH (noun)
Meaning:
A failure to perform some promised act or obligation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("breach" is a kind of...):
failure (an unexpected omission)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "breach"):
breach of contract (a breach of a legal duty; failure to do something that is required in a contract)
breach of duty (a breach of due care)
Meaning:
An opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("breach" is a kind of...):
gap; opening (an open or empty space in or between things)
Meaning:
A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
falling out; severance; rupture; breach; rift; break
Context example:
they hoped to avoid a break in relations
Hypernyms ("breach" is a kind of...):
breakup; detachment; separation (coming apart)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "breach"):
schism (the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences)
• BREACH (verb)
Meaning:
Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
breach; infract; transgress; go against; offend; violate; break
Context examples:
offend all laws of humanity / violate the basic laws or human civilization / break a law / break a promise
Hypernyms (to "breach" is one way to...):
disrespect (show a lack of respect for)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "breach"):
sin; transgress; trespass (commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law)
blunder; boob; goof; sin (commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake)
conflict; contravene; infringe; run afoul (go against, as of rules and laws)
trespass (break the law)
intrude; trespass (enter unlawfully on someone's property)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Make an opening or gap in
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
gap; breach
Hypernyms (to "breach" is one way to...):
open; open up (cause to open or to become open)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
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