Overview of noun breach

The noun breach has 3 senses

• breach -- (a failure to perform some promised act or obligation)


• breach -- (an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification))


• rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out -- (a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations")

Overview of verb breach

The verb breach has 2 senses

• transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, break -- (act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise")


• gap, breach -- (make an opening or gap in)