(n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
(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.
(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.
(n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters
themselves; surge; surf.
(n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
(n.) A bruise; a wound.
(n.) A hernia; a rupture.
(n.) A breaking out upon; an assault.
(v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls
of a city.
(v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a
whale.
