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A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea.
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n.
Breach of peace or concord between individuals; open hostility or war between nations; interruption of friendly relations; as, the parties came to a rupture.
n.
A breaking or bursting open; breach; rupture.
n.
A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like.
n.
The act of transgressing, or of passing over or beyond any law, civil or moral; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command; fault; offense; crime; sin.
a.
Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.
n.
Division or separation; specifically (Eccl.), permanent division or separation in the Christian church; breach of unity among people of the same religious faith; the offense of seeking to produce division in a church without justifiable cause.
v. i.
To take part in schism; to make a breach of communion in the church.
n.
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.
v. i.
To suffer a breach or disruption.
n.
Any civil wrong or injury; a wrongful act (not involving a breach of contract) for which an action will lie; a form of action, in some parts of the United States, for a wrong or injury.
n.
A breach or rent; a breaking forth into a loud, shrill sound; as, martial screeds.
n.
One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason.
v. t.
To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
a.
Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme.
v. t.
To make a matter of bargain and sale of; to accept a price or reward for, as for a breach of duty, trust, or the like; to betray.
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n.
To hurt by violence; to produce a breach, or separation of parts, in, as by a cut, stab, blow, or the like.
v. t.
To make wide or wider; to extend in breadth; to increase the width of; as, to widen a field; to widen a breach; to widen a stocking.
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