ETYM Old Eng. breke, breche, AS. brice, gebrice, gebrece (in comp.), from brecan to break; akin to Dan. braek, Mid. High Germ. breche, gap, breach. Related to Break, Brake (the instrument), Brack a break.
(Homonym: breech).
(Irregular plural: breaches).
1. A failure to perform some promised act or obligation.
2. An opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification).
Prolom, prodor (u zidu, u bedemu, utvrđenju); fig. šteta, uštrb.
Otvor, prolaz, rupa, pukotina na tvrđavi, barikadi i sl. (fr.)
Međuprostor, otstojanje, razdaljina, razmak, praznina između čega; međuvreme: prav. međuvreme, rok; (lat.)
Ozleda, rana.
Delit, izgred.
Prelamanje, lom, fraktura.
Prodiranje.
Prolazak.
Poništenje, raskidanje.
Raspon.
1. To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.
2. To break a clause in a contract.