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Noun breach has 3 senses
- breach - a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
--1 is a kind of failure
--1 has particulars: breach of contract; breach of duty
- breach - an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
--2 is a kind of opening, gap
- rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out - a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations"
--3 is a kind of separation, breakup, detachment
Verb breach has 2 senses
- transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, break - act in disregard of laws and rules; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"
--1 is one way to disrespect
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- gap, breach - make an opening or gap in
--2 is one way to open, open up
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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