Breach

[briːtʃ] or [britʃ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a failure to perform some promised act or obligation.

(noun.) an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification).

吉恩編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

(n.) 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.) 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.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.

(n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.

(n.) A bruise; a wound.

(n.) A hernia; a rupture.

(n.) A breaking out upon; an assault.

(v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.

(v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.

編輯:斯坦利

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Break, fracture, rupture, opening, chasm, gap, crack, flaw, fissure, rent, rift.[2]. Infraction, violation, infringement, non-observance.[3]. Quarrel, difference, variance, disagreement, dissension, schism, misunderstanding, alienation, disaffection, rupture, falling out.

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同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Rupture, divulsion, gap, quarrel, violation, nonperformance

ANT:Integrity, conservation, healing, reconciliation, inviolateness, fulfillment

埃利奥特錄入

解釋/意思:

n. a break or opening as in the walls of a fortress: a breaking of law &c. violation of contract covenant promise &c.: a quarrel: a broken condition or part of anything a break: a gap in a fortification—hence 'to stand in the breach ' often used figuratively: a break in a coast-line bay harbour creek (Judges v. 17).—v.t. to make a breach or opening in a wall &c.—Breach of promise often used simply for breach of promise of marriage; Breach of the peace a violation of the public peace by riot or the like.

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