breach

Definitions

• 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
• A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
• A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves
• A breaking out upon; an assault.
• (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
• (archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
• (legal) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment
• (figurative) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
• The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.