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Definition of breach : 1. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
2. A breaking out upon; an assault.
3. A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
4. A bruise; a wound.
5. 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.
6. A hernia; a rupture.
7. 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.
8. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
9. To break the water, as by leaping out; - said of a whale.
10. To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.

Synonyms:

intermission, go, soften, non-compliance, fight your way, good luck, give way, get around, bring out, fault, unwrap, schism, back out, wrong, die, bust, desecrate, buffer zone, fall apart, beachhead, wear out, interruption, dishonor, scandalise, cut, dampen, villainy, nonobservance, fracture, appal, scandalize, jailbreak, discontinue, misdoing, disaffection, rent, happy chance, decadence, weaken, help, give, smash, demote, fall in, bulldoze, immorality, faulting, noncooperation, disclose, breakout, emplacement, opening, welsh on, hole, malefaction, iniquity, burst, shock, cut through, overstep, estrangement, perforation, recrudesce, evil, transgress, backpedal, break off, let out, spite, challenge, bridgehead, fissure, reveal, relegate, time out, quarrel, wear, break up, appall, controversy, break away, develop, infringe, rupture, contravene, sin, flout, dugout, trespass, split, shift, cut across, suspension, split up, lawbreaking, discontinuity, disobedience, conk out, duck out of, expose, give out, conflict, contravention, assemble, assault, break out, snap off, buck, disagreement, defy, come apart, battlefield, prison-breaking, severing, gaolbreak, discover, defiance, part, misdeed, plunder, damp, pause, give away, go against, hiatus, violate, infract, interrupt, push, go back on, confrontation, ruin, dishonour, disputed, misunderstanding, erupt, error, fail, cockpit, stop, depravity, collapse, falling out, excess, open, cave in, cry off, respite, spoil, profane, disruption, traverse, break of serve, renege, kick downstairs, despoil, argument, bankrupt, right, interstice, better, squeeze, breakage, bump, bastion, prisonbreak, noncompliance, a war of words, hurt, cross, wound, let on, divulge, recess, breaking, break in, separate, bruise, intermit, severance, check, void, insubordination, fight, founder, geological fault, open frame, debt, injure, disobey, get out, pique, dispute, break dance, offend, ravish, enormity, rape, break down, wrongdoing, go bad

inapplicability, irrelevance, alienation, difference, extraneousness, detachment, foreignness, division, disjunction, remoteness, dissociation, segregation, separation, other

interval, notch, abyss, chasm, gap, break, gulf, crevice, cleft, rift, crack, slit, space, ravine

impropriety, inappropriateness, improperness, encroachment, indecorousness, unsuitability, unfitness

infringement, transgression, atrocity, injustice, mischief, felony, violation, infraction, outrage, misdemeanor, offense, crime

Usage examples:

• We thought we should have to go without dinner, but Autolycus, stepping gallantly into the breach said No, he would cook it; he had often cooked while with Colonel- M'Greegor- Sahib. - "Olivia in India", O. Douglas.
• When I think of the moment when he learnt Nefert's breach of faith I turn hot and cold." - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers.
• He thought that he would be guilty of no breach of promise were he so to obtain funds, telling Sir Thomas of his purpose, and asking the lawyer's assistance; but he knew that if he did this all his chance of future high prosperity would be at an end. - "Ralph the Heir", Anthony Trollope.