All 3 Uses of
breach
in
Cujo
- her heart gave out, one of its paper-thin, walls breaching suddenly (and almost painlessly) as she sat in her kitchen chair, a cup of coffee by one hand and a straight-eight Herbert Tareyton by the other;†
breaching = breaking or penetrating
- There was no breach of faith.†
*breach = break or penetrate
- He has to get up in front of the American people and tell them there was no breach of faith.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(breach) break -- as in break an understanding or a break (gap) in a wall
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
A less common meaning of breach is the rising and breaking out of the water by a whale.