n. - The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
n. - 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.
n. - 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.
n. - A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
n. - A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
n. - A bruise; a wound.
n. - A hernia; a rupture.
n. - A breaking out upon; an assault.
v. t. - To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
v. i. - To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.