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# breach

«breach» in Mova's school dictionary: **the breaking of a rule, law, promise or agreement: «a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a breach, breaches); verb (breach, breaches, breached, breaching)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A breach is the breaking of a rule, law, promise or agreement: «a breach of the rules». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breach/#m1)

2) A breach is a gap or hole made in a wall, dam or defence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breach/#m2)

3) To breach something is to break through it: «The sea breached the wall». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breach/#m3)

4) (formal) A data breach is when private information is stolen or leaked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breach/#m4)

5) When a whale breaches, it jumps up out of the water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breach/#m5)

6) A breach can also be a huge wave that crashes over the deck of a ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breach/#m6)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and safety: a data breach means passwords or details have been stolen, so people must change passwords. In school rules «a breach of the rules» is a formal way to say someone broke a rule. In history and geography stories, enemies breach walls and floods breach river banks. Phrases: breach of the rules, breach of trust, data breach, breach of the peace, step into the breach (help when someone is missing).

### examples

- Copying in the exam is a breach of the school rules. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breach/#x1)
- The flood water breached the river bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breach/#x2)
- The company had a data breach, so we changed our passwords. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breach/#x3)
- Reading her diary was a breach of trust. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breach/#x4)
- We watched a whale breach right next to the boat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breach/#x5)
- When the goalkeeper was ill, Sam stepped into the breach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breach/#x6)
- The soldiers made a breach in the castle wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breach/#x7)
- It was impossible to render assistance; the sea rushed in upon the vessel, making a clean breach over her. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breach/#x8)

### note

Sounds like «breech» (the back part of a gun, or a baby born feet first), but means something different. «Breach» is formal; at home people would say «break the rules». Plural «breaches».

### In the corpora

- [Breaching means leaping out of the water; scientists think whales do it to signal, show off or knock off skin pests.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/26-whales/12/)
- [And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.643/)
- [And the priests consented that they should take no longer money from the people, neither repair the breaches of the house.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.372/)
- [Thou hast made the land to shake, Thou hast cleft it; heal the breaches thereof; for it tottereth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.979/)
- [Whose oxen are well laden; with no breach, and no going forth, and no outcry in our broad places;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2612/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «breach» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/breach/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.