1. (n.) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise\.

2. (n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

3. (n.) A gap or opening 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.

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

5. (n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.

6. (n.) A bruise; a wound.

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

8. (n.) A breaking out upon; an assault.

9. (v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.

10. (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.

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