A Quick and Simple Dictionary

breach

1. Noun.  The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
2. Noun.  (legal) 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.
3. Noun.  A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture; a fissure.
4. Noun.  A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
5. Noun.  A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
6. Noun.  A breaking out upon; an assault.
7. Noun.  (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
8. Noun.  (archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
9. Verb.  (transitive) To make a breach in.
10. Verb.  (transitive) To violate or break.
11. Verb.  (transitive, nautical) , to break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
12. Verb.  (intransitive) (context, of a whale) to leap clear out of the water.