| Breach |
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense. |
n. |
| Breach |
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. |
| Breach |
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. |
| Breach |
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf. |
n. |
| Breach |
A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture. |
n. |
| Breach |
A bruise; a wound. |
n. |
| Breach |
A hernia; a rupture. |
n. |
| Breach |
A breaking out upon; an assault. |
n. |
| Breach |
To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city. |
v. t. |
| Breach |
To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale. |
v. i. |
| Pound-breach |
The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals. |
n. |
| Sea breach |
A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea. |
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| Spouse |
A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife. |
n. |
| Spouse |
A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband. |
n. |
| Spouse |
To wed; to espouse. |
n. |