Both Uses of
breach
in
Nineteen Minutes
- Even driving here from court, she had been aware of the fragility of the roads beneath her wheels, of the divider of sky that could so easily be breached.†
Chpt 1 *breached = broke or penetrated
- There was a bang and a hammering, the sound of a crowbar breaching a seam.†
Chpt 1breaching = breaking or penetrating
Definitions:
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(1)
(breach) break or failure
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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.