meaning of break5

1. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
2.
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.
3.
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.
4.
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
5.
A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
6.
A bruise; a wound.
7.
A hernia; a rupture.
8.
A breaking out upon; an assault.
9.
To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
10.
To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.


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