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Meaning:
Noun:
- A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
- A breaking out upon; an assault.
- A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
- A gap or opening 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.
- archaic A bruise; a wound.
- archaic A hernia; a rupture.
- legal 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.
- The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
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Verb:
- of a whale to leap clear out of the water
- of the sea, to break into a ship or into a coastal defence
- intransitive To break (in the above senses)
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