Violation vs. Breach
Violation and Breach Definitions
Violation
The act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated
A violation of the law.
The violation of a country's neutrality.
Breach
An opening, tear, or rupture.
Violation
The act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated.
Breach
A gap or rift, especially in a solid structure such as a dike or fortification.
Violation
An infraction or a failure to follow a rule.
Breach
A violation or infraction, as of a contract, law, legal obligation, or promise.
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Violation
Rape; sexual activity forced on another person without their consent.
Breach
A breaking up or disruption of friendly relations; an estrangement.
Violation
The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.
Breach
A leap of a whale from the water.
Violation
Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc.
Breach
The breaking of waves or surf.
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Violation
An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church.
Breach
To make a hole or gap in; break through.
Violation
Interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance.
Breach
To break or violate (an agreement, for example).
Violation
Ravishment; rape; outrage.
Breach
To leap from the water
Waiting for the whale to breach.
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Violation
A crime less serious than a felony
Breach
To develop a hole or opening. Used especially of protective embankments
The rising river caused the levee to breach.
Violation
An act that disregards an agreement or a right;
He claimed a violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment
Breach
A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence
Violation
Entry to another's property without right or permission
Breach
A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
Violation
A disrespectful act
Breach
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves
A clear breach is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean breach is when everything on deck is swept away.
Violation
The crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will
Breach
A breaking out upon; an assault.
Breach
(archaic) A bruise; a wound.
Breach
(archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
Breach
(legal) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment
Breach of promise
Breach
(figurative) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
Breach
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
Breach
(transitive) To make a breach in.
They breached the outer wall, but not the main one.
Breach
(transitive) To violate or break.
Breach
To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
Breach
To leap out of the water.
Breach
To charge or convict (someone) of breaching the terms of a bail, probation, recognizance, etc.
Breach
The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
Breach
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.
Breach
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.
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;Or close the wall up with our English dead.
Breach
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters.
Breach
A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
There's fallen between him and my lordAn unkind breach.
Breach
A bruise; a wound.
Breach for breach, eye for eye.
Breach
A hernia; a rupture.
Breach
A breaking out upon; an assault.
The Lord had made a breach upon Uzza.
Breach
To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
Breach
To break the water, as by leaping out; - said of a whale.
Breach
A failure to perform some promised act or obligation
Breach
An opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)
Breach
A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions);
They hoped to avoid a break in relations
Breach
Act in disregard of laws and rules;
Offend all laws of humanity
Violate the basic laws or human civilization
Break a law
Breach
Make an opening or gap in
