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What is the noun for breaching?

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breach
  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.
  10. Synonyms:
  11. Examples:
    1. “The cattle of the plaintiffs were running at large, and, without the fault of the defendant, entered upon said field through a breach in the fence.”
      “The Messum river, coming from the Brandberg, forms a breach in the mountains.”
      “The rejection of an allegedly sincere peace offer by the party widened the breach between the two factions.”
breaching
  1. The act by which something is breached.
breacher
  1. One who breaches.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Cleopatra had become the personification of vice, flouter of every convention, breacher of every taboo.”
      “Italy, a persistent breacher of milk quotas, is desperate to get rid of them.”
      “But in Britain this audacious breacher of security became something of a national hero.”
breachings
  1. plural of breaching
breachers
  1. plural of breacher
breaches
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