Breach

1. n. A breaking out upon; an assault.
2. n. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
3. n. 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.
4. n. 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.
5. n. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
6. n. A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
7. n. A bruise; a wound.
8. n. A hernia; a rupture.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.