MEANING
1. To make or pass through an opening in a barrier or defense.
2. To fail to comply with an agreement, duty, or legal requirement.
3. To rise partly or wholly out of the water, especially of a whale.
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Words that belong together
- breach a wall
- breach a seal
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Something breached the seal while the monitors still showed a vacuum.
The rescuers breached the wall before the roof collapsed.
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Word forms
- Base
- breach
- Past tense
- breached
- Past participle
- breached
- Present participle
- breaching
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- breach
- Present continuous
- am/is/are breaching
- Present perfect
- have/has breached
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been breaching
- Past
- breached
- Past continuous
- was/were breaching
- Past perfect
- had breached
- Past perfect continuous
- had been breaching
- Future
- will breach
- Future continuous
- will be breaching
- Future perfect
- will have breached
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been breaching
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: breach; breaches; breached; breached; breaching Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: breaches.
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