breach
[bri:tʃ]
n. 裂口, 违背, 破坏, 违, 突破, 破裂

vt. 破, 突破

vi. 跳

[] 突破, 违

1. Your action is a breach of our agreement.
   动违议。
2. You are in breach of your contract.
   违签合。
3. Union officials denounced the action as a breach of the agreement.
   责谴责动破坏议.

breach
[ noun ]

1. a failure to perform some promised act or obligation

<noun.act>

2. an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)

<noun.object>

3. a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

<noun.event>
they hoped to avoid a break in relations

[ verb ]

1. act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

<verb.social> break go against infract offend transgress violate
offend all laws of humanity
violate the basic laws or human civilization
break a law
break a promise

2. make an opening or gap in

<verb.contact> gap

Breach \Breach\ (br[=e]ch), n. [OE. breke, breche, AS. brice,
gebrice, gebrece (in comp.), fr. brecan to break; akin to
Dan. br[ae]k, MHG. breche, gap, breach. See {Break}, and cf.
{Brake} (the instrument), {Brack} a break] .
1. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

2. 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.

3. 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.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead. --Shak.

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

The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before
me, as the breach of waters. --2 Sam. v.
20.

{A clear breach} implies that the waves roll over the vessel
without breaking.

{A clean breach} implies that everything on deck is swept
away. --Ham. Nav. Encyc.

5. A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.

There's fallen between him and my lord
An unkind breach. --Shak.

6. A bruise; a wound.

Breach for breach, eye for eye. --Lev. xxiv.
20.

7. (Med.) A hernia; a rupture.

8. A breaking out upon; an assault.

The Lord had made a breach upon Uzza. --1. Chron.
xiii. 11.

{Breach of falth}, a breaking, or a failure to keep, an
expressed or implied promise; a betrayal of confidence or
trust.

{Breach of peace}, disorderly conduct, disturbing the public
peace.

{Breach of privilege}, an act or default in violation of the
privilege or either house of Parliament, of Congress, or
of a State legislature, as, for instance, by false
swearing before a committee. --Mozley. Abbott.
※

{Breach of promise}, violation of one's plighted word, esp.
of a promise to marry.

{Breach of trust}, violation of one's duty or faith in a
matter entrusted to one.

Syn: Rent; cleft; chasm; rift; aperture; gap; break;
disruption; fracture; rupture; infraction; infringement;
violation; quarrel; dispute; contention; difference;
misunderstanding.


Breach \Breach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Breached}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Breaching}.]
To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a
city.


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