Word Meaning

Meaning of "breach" and the crossword clue

- A break
- A gap
- Divide
- Gap in an enemy’s fortifications
- Leap in whale-like fashion
- Rupture
- Rupture, rift
- Violation of rules
- Whales leap from water right into beach!
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.
- A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
- A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
- A bruise; a wound.
- A hernia; a rupture.
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
- To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
- To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.