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Breach
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; - said of a whale.
(2):
(v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
(3):
(n.) A hernia; a rupture.
(4):
(n.) A breaking out upon; an assault.
(5):
(n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
(6):
(n.) 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.
(7):
(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.
(8):
(n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
(9):
(n.) A bruise; a wound.
(10):
(n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Breach'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/breach.html. 1828.
