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breach

(br/i//tS/ )

a failure to perform some promised act or obligation(noun.act)

source: wordnet30
an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)(noun.object)

source: wordnet30
a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)(noun.event)

Synonym:
break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance

source: wordnet30
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.(noun)

source: webster1913

act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises(verb.social)

Synonym:
break, go against, infract, offend, transgress, violate
Antonym:
keep, observe

source: wordnet30
make an opening or gap in(verb.contact)

Synonym:
gap

source: wordnet30
To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.(verb)

source: webster1913
To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.(verb)

source: webster1913

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