breaching

Verb

breach (third-person singular simple present breaches, present participle breaching, simple past and past participle breached)

1. (transitive) To make a breach in.
   • They breached the outer wall, but not the main one.
2. (transitive) To violate or break.
   • breach an agreement
3. (transitive) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
   • On this occasion, the damage was far more serious. The sea wall was breached completely for a distance of over 50 yd., and the gap had to be bridged by a temporary timber viaduct.1947 January and February, H. A. Vallance, “The Sea Wall at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 18
4. (intransitive) To suffer a breach.
   • Picard: We don't have time for this! The Pasteur’s core is going to breach!1994, Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore, “All Good Things...”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 7, episodes 25-26, Patrick Stewart (actor)
5. (intransitive) To leap out of the water.
   • The fearless whale-fishermen now found themselves in the midst of the monsters; ... some ... came jumping into the light of day, head uppermost, exhibiting their entire bodies in the sun, and falling on their sides into the water with the weight of a hundred tons, and thus "breaching" with a crash...1835, Joseph C. Hart, Miriam Coffin, or The whale-fishermen, volume 2, Harper & brothers, page 147
6. (informal, passive, transitive, usually) To charge, convict or take legal action against someone due to not meeting a legal obligation.
   • […]the Pre-Sentence Report states that: "He was breached by the probation officer within several months of the commencement of the Probation Order for failing to report as he relocated to another Province and did not report there as directed.[…]"2011 June 7, D.A. Harris, “R. v. Larochelle, 2011 ONCJ 339”, in CanLII, retrieved 10 Oct 2021

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