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Pronunciation
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Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-i�t�|-i�t�

Homophones
breech

Etymology
From OE. bræc (a breaking), from brecan, influenced by OF. breche (French: brèche), from Frankish. (ref.: etymonline)

Noun
en-noun|es

1. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

#* 1748. David Hume. Enquiry concerning Human Understanding. Section 3. § 12.
#*: 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, would enter coldly into the new scene;

1. 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.
2. A gap or opening 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.
3. A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
4. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf.

#* 1719: w:Daniel Defoe|Daniel Defoe, w:Robinson Crusoe|Robinson Crusoe
#*: I cast my eye to the stranded vessel, when, the breach and froth of the sea being so big, I could hardly see it, it lay so far of; and considered, Lord! how was it possible I could get on shore.

1. A breaking out upon; an assault.
2. archaic A bruise; a wound.
3. archaic A hernia; a rupture.

Translations
trans-top|figuratively: the act of breaking
Finnish: murros
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Portuguese: t+|pt|parada|f
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trans-top|break of a law or obligation
Finnish: rikkomus (law, contract), rikkominen (promise)
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Portuguese: t|pt|infração|f
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trans-top|gap
Finnish: murtuma
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Portuguese: t|pt|fissura|f
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trans-top|breaking up of amicable relations
Finnish: t|fi|välirikko
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Portuguese: t+|pt|término|m
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trans-top|breaking of waves
Finnish: murtuminen
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trans-top|assault
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French: brèche
Ido: brecho
Italian: breccia
Korean: ��
Spanish: brecha f
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Verb
en-verb|breach|es

1. intransitive To break (in the above senses)
2. intransitive nautical|of the sea, to break into a ship or into a coastal defence
3. intransitive context|of a whale to leap clear out of the water

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• 2007-12-27 16:31 - Hekaheka - /* Noun */ Finnish translation

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