Violation of a contract obligation, duty, or
law.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
breach (noun)1.
infraction or violation of a law, obligation, tie, or standard
2.
a) a broken, ruptured, or torn condition or area
b) a gap (as in a wall) made by battering
3.
a) a in accustomed friendly relations - break
b) a temporary gap in continuity - hiatus
4.
a leap especially of a whale out of water
transitive verb
1.
to make a breach in - breach a wall
2.
intransitive verb
- break violate breach an agreement to leap out of water - a whale breaching
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
breach (noun)1.
a failure to uphold the requirements of law, duty, or obligation
SYNONYMS:
contravention, infraction, infringement, transgression, trespass, violationRELATED WORDS:
misconduct, misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision, offense ( offence), sin, wrong; disregard, forgetting, ignoring, nonobservance, overlooking; delinquency, dereliction, neglect; encroachment, intrusion, invasionNEAR ANTONYMS:
respecting, upholding2.
a breaking of a moral or legal code
SYNONYMS:
breach, crime, debt, error, lawbreaking, malefaction, misdeed, misdoing, sin, transgression, trespass, violation, wrongdoingRELATED WORDS:
bias crime, hate crime; felony, misconduct, misdemeanor, misfeasance; fault, foible, peccadillo; break, infringement; immorality, iniquitousness, iniquity, sinfulness, vice, wickedness; corruption, debauchery, depravity, licentiousness; abuse, criminality, illegality, lawlessness, unlawfulness; descent, downfall, fallNEAR ANTONYMS:
blamelessness, faultlessness, guiltlessness, impeccability, innocence, irreproachability; goodness, morality, righteousness, virtue, virtuousness3.
an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)
SYNONYMS:
breach, break, discontinuity, gulf, hiatus, hole, interstice, interval, opening, rent, rift, separation, voidRELATED WORDS:
chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissure; notch, slit, slot, split; interspace, pore; abyss, aperture, cavity, chasm, gape, orifice; fracture, rupture, severance, sunderingto fail to keep
SYNONYMS:
breach, break, contravene, fracture, infringe, offend, traduce, transgressRELATED WORDS:
disobey, rebel; blow off, brush (off), disregard, flout, ignore, neglect, overlook, overpass, pass over, slight, tune out, wink (at); dismiss, pooh-pooh ( pooh), scorn, shrug off; defy, resist, withstandNEAR ANTONYMS:
defer (to), serve, submit (to), surrender (to), yield (to); attend, hear, heed, listen (to), mark, note, notice, regard, watch
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