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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

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