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What does breach mean?

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Noun
  1. A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence
  2. A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
  3. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves
  4. A breaking out upon; an assault.
  5. (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
  6. (archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
  7. (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment
  8. (figuratively) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
  9. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
Verb
  1. (transitive) To make a breach in.
  2. (transitive) To violate or break.
  3. (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
  4. (intransitive, of a whale) To leap clear out of the water.
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