Definition of Breach

	Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog Now!
Home - Quote Topics - Quotes of the Day - Quote Keywords - Author Types - Quotation Trivia Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Breach

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

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.

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.

A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.

A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.

A bruise; a wound.

A hernia; a rupture.

A breaking out upon; an assault.

To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.

To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.

Related Definitions:

Act, Amicable, An, Any, As, Assault, Battering, Between, Body, Breach, Break, Breaking, Bruise, By, City, Contract, Figurative, Fortification, Gap, Hernia, In, Infraction, Law, Leaping, Made, Make, Obligation, Of, Opening, Or, Out, Over, Promise, Rent, Rupture, Said, Sense, Solid, Space, Specifically, Surf, Surge, The, Themselves, Tie, To, Up, Upon, Vessel, Violation, Violence, Wall, Water, Whale, Wound

Breach Quotations

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Mohandas Gandhi

The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.
Freda Adler

How did Abraham know that it was God that bid him offer his son, being a breach of the sixth commandment?
Anne Hutchinson

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
William Hazlitt

Nothing is worse, or more of a breach of the social contract between citizen and state, than for government officials, bureaucrats and agencies to waste the money entrusted to them by the people they serve.
Bob Riley

I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
Patrick Stewart

All of the information that we were getting up to that time from the NRC people, from our people who knew something about nuclear power, was that the breach of the core was not a likelihood to happen.
William Scranton

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
Learned Hand

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.
Mitt Romney

In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.
James L. Buckley

Breach Translations

breach in Dutch is een bres slaan, een bres slaan in
breach in German is Verletzung
breach in Portuguese is ruptura
breach in Spanish is brecha
breach in Swedish is brytande

Quotes