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Synonyms & Antonyms of breach
(Entry 1 of 2)
- the president's deliberate misstatements were widely seen as a breach of the public trust
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- cheating on the exam was a serious breach of the military academy's honor code
Synonyms for breach
- crime,
- debt,
- error,
- lawbreaking,
- malefaction,
- misdeed,
- misdoing,
- offense
- (or offence),
- sin,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- violation,
- wrongdoing
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- the cat got out of the yard through a breach in the hedge
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- break,
- discontinuity,
- gap,
- gulf,
- hiatus,
- hole,
- interstice,
- interval,
- opening,
- rent,
- rift,
- separation,
- void
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verbSynonyms & Antonyms of breach (Entry 2 of 2)
- a builder being sued by a homeowner for breaching a contract
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From the Editors at Merriam-Webster
'Breech' vs. 'Breach'
'Breech' vs. 'Breach'
Mind the gap and hold on to your butts
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“Breach.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/breach. Accessed 10 December 2019.
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The first known use of breach was in the 14th century
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