OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 13938

breach

/bɹiːtʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
adentramiento • batería • boquete • brecha • expugnación • penetración
A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence.
"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead."
Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 aft…
brecha
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
But were the poet to make a total difression from his subject, and introduce a new actor, nowise connected with the personages, the imagination, feeling a breach in transition, wou…
brecha • violación
A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
breach of promise
disolución
A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling out.
There's fallen between him and my lord / An unkind breach.
brecha
A breaking out upon; an assault.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 13939

breach

/bɹiːtʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
abrir brecha • adentrarse en • expugnar • mellar • penetrar
To make a breach in.
They breached the outer wall, but not the main one.
saltar fuera del agua
To leap out of the water.
But one of its most surprising feats, as has been mentioned of the genera already described, is leaping completely out of the water, or 'breaching,' as it is called. ... it seldom…
The fearless whale-fishermen now found themselves in the midst of the monsters; ... some ... came jumping into the light of day, head uppermost, exhibiting their entire bodies in t…