## Meanings
1. An act of breaking a law, rule, agreement, or promise.
2. To break a law, rule, or agreement.
3. A gap or hole made by breaking through something, such as a wall.
4. A serious break in a friendly relationship between people or groups.

## Examples
- Sharing the documents was a serious breach of contract.
- Your actions clearly breached the rules we had agreed on.
- The flood opened a breach in the embankment.
- A breach opened up between the two old friends that was never repaired.

## Synonyms
- break
- gap
- rift
- rupture

## Derived Forms
- breachable
- breacher
- breachful
- breachless
- breachy
- cyberbreach
- faithbreach
- grithbreach
- megabreach
- oathbreach
- prebreach
- spousebreach

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: breche
- Root: bryċe
- Root: *bruki
- Root: *brukiz

## Etymology
From Middle English breche, from Old English bryċe (“fracture, breach”) and brǣċ (“breach, breaking, destruction”), from Proto-West Germanic *bruki, from Proto-Germanic *brukiz (“breach, fissure”) and *brēkō (“breaking”).

## AI Etymology
Breach is from Middle English breche, from Old English bryċe (“fracture, breach”) and brǣċ (“breach, breaking, destruction”), from Proto-West Germanic *bruki, from Proto-Germanic *brukiz (“breach, fissure”) and *brēkō (“breaking”). Important recorded forms include breche (Middle English), bryċe (Old English), *bruki (Proto-West Germanic), and *brukiz (Proto-Germanic). Current senses include an act of breaking a law, rule, agreement, or promise, to break a law, rule, or agreement, and a gap or hole made by breaking through something, such as a wall. The wider family includes derived forms such as breachable, breacher, breachful, breachless, and breachy.

## Topics
- Law & Government

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