breach

1. 1.

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

   “offend all laws of humanity”

   “violate the basic laws or human civilization”

   “break a law”

   “break a promise”

   Synonymstransgressoffendinfractviolatego againstbreak

   Broaderdisrespect

   Narrowersindrop the ballconflicttrespass
2. 2.

   make an opening or gap in

   Synonymsgap

   Broaderopen

Other forms of breach

plural

breaches·

past tense

breached·

present participle

breaching·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about breach

What does breach mean?

breach means "a failure to perform some promised act or obligation". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in breach?

breach has 1 syllable: breach. In IPA it is /ˈbɹitʃ/.

What is another word for breach?

Close synonyms include rupture, break, severance, rift, falling out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is breach a common word?

breach is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with breach?

1 word rhymes with breach. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.