Synonyms of breaching

breaching

verb

present participle of breach

as in violating

to fail to keep

a builder being sued by a homeowner for breaching a contract

Synonyms & Similar Words

• violating
• breaking
• contravening
• transgressing
• offending
• fracturing
• infringing (on or upon)
• ignoring
• disobeying
• traducing
• flouting
• disregarding
• neglecting
• rebelling
• overlooking
• resisting
• dismissing
• brushing (off)
• scorning
• defying
• withstanding
• passing over
• slighting
• blowing off
• tuning out
• winking (at)
• overpassing
• shrugging off
• pooh-poohing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• following
• observing
• conforming (to)
• complying (with)
• obeying
• serving
• yielding (to)
• submitting (to)
• regarding
• marking
• minding
• hearing
• attending
• listening (to)
• watching
• noting
• noticing
• surrendering (to)
• deferring (to)
• heeding

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of breaching

Israel said Syria was on the verge of breaching a security understanding by allowing Turkish troops to deploy there, while Ankara rejected Israel’s account. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 20 Aug. 2026

The central midfielder was banned for breaching anti-doping regulations for an initial four years in February 2024. — Nnamdi Onyeagwara, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026

In July, Romanian F-16 fighter jet pilots shot down three Russian drones breaching national airspace for the first time after dozens of such incursions in the more than four years of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. — Tim Lister, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026

Board members would be breaching their fiduciary duty for failing to enforce the provisions of the declaration and must reaffirm their intent to prospectively enforce the declaration by board resolution, and actually do so. — Howard Dakoff, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026

This included breaching his privacy in July 2024 when an HR executive shared sensitive information about his condition without Leo’s consent. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2026

This signals a rapid shift towards autonomous AI hacking, evidenced by incidents like OpenAI's agent breaching Hugging Face and Anthropic's Claude models accessing real systems. — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Israel and Hamas both regularly accuse the other of breaching the ceasefire. — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC news, 9 Aug. 2026

And TikTok claims to have shut down several streams within 90 seconds, before banning the account outright due to Hilton breaching the social media platform’s Community Guidelines. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2026