breach
/ˈbɹit͡ʃ/ sustantivo C1En español: brecha, batería, boquete, adentramiento
- A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
- A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment. · breach of promise
- A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
- A difference in opinions, social class, etc.
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves. · A clear breach is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean breach is when everything on deck is swept away.
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
Plural breaches
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_Too much_, I am afraid; for what becomes of the moral, if our comfort springs from a breach of promise, for I ought not to have mentioned the subject?
Out through the breach in the wall of the garden,
Finally Marilla stepped lamely into the breach.
Anne evidently got through her visit without any serious breach of “etiquette,” for she came home through the twilight, under a great, high-sprung sky gloried over with trails of saffron and rosy cloud, in a beatified state of mind and told Marilla all about it happily, sitting on the big red-sandstone slab at the kitchen door with her tired curly head in Marilla’s gingham lap.
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