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breachnoun a failure to uphold the requirements of law, duty, or obligationthe president's deliberate misstatements were widely seen as a breach of the public trust contravention, infraction, infringement, transgression, trespass, violation misconduct, misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision, offense(or offence), sin, wrongdisregard, forgetting, ignoring, nonobservance, overlookingdelinquency, dereliction, neglectencroachment, intrusion, invasion noninfringement, observance respecting, upholding a breaking of a moral or legal codecheating on the exam was a serious breach of the military academy's honor code crime, debt, error, lawbreaking, malefaction, misdeed, misdoing, offense(or offence), sin, transgression, trespass, violation, wrongdoing bias crime, hate crimefelony, misconduct, misdemeanor, misfeasancefault, foible, peccadillobreak, infringementimmorality, iniquitousness, iniquity, sinfulness, vice, wickednesscorruption, debauchery, depravity, licentiousnessabuse, criminality, illegality, lawlessness, unlawfulnessdescent, downfall, fall noncrime blamelessness, faultlessness, guiltlessness, impeccability, innocence, irreproachabilitygoodness, morality, righteousness, virtue, virtuousness an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)the cat got out of the yard through a breach in the hedge break, discontinuity, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, interstice, interval, opening, rent, rift, separation, void chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissurenotch, slit, slot, splitinterspace, poreabyss, aperture, cavity, chasm, gape, orificefracture, rupture, severance, sundering breachverbto fail to keepa builder being sued by a homeowner for breaching a contract break, contravene, fracture, infringe (on or upon), offend, traduce, transgress, violate disobey, rebelblow off, brush (off), disregard, flout, ignore, neglect, overlook, overpass, pass over, slight, tune out, wink (at)dismiss, pooh-pooh(also pooh), scorn, shrug offdefy, resist, withstand comply (with), conform (to), follow, mind, obey, observe defer (to), serve, submit (to), surrender (to), yield (to)attend, hear, heed, listen (to), mark, note, notice, regard, watch in the 14th century |