Synonyms:
breach
Meaning: a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
transgress, offend, infract, violate, go_against, breach, break
Meaning: 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"
Synonyms:
gap, breach
Meaning: make an opening or gap in
Usage examples
An intentional breach of politeness
"It would be a breach of trust which would greatly disturb me.
Tycho accepted the apology thus heartily rendered, and the temporary breach was permanently healed.
It were surely a breach of politeness on our part not to attend Mr. Ketch in his impromptu evening visit!
Twice already has evil befallen you--once from fear, and once from heedlessness: breach of word is far worse; it is a crime."
But the gallantry of her friends would not allow of this; and the man in faded black, mounting the breach first, produced his plunder.
Every one's beginning--at the end of two days--to sidle obsequiously away from her, and Mrs. Wimbush pushes him again and again into the breach.
Riah bent his eyes upon the ground, as if considering whether he could answer the question without breach of faith, and then silently raised them to Fledgeby's face, as if he could not.
And the day comes at last, when, summoning all its waters to the attack, it makes a breach in the great earth wall, and in a strong, grand column, as high as this room, marches away towards the sea.
King had recently come from Massachusetts, and Hamilton's insistence that he should be chosen caused a breach with the Livingstons, which contributed to the defeat of Schuyler two years later and the election of Aaron Burr.
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