Both Uses of
breach
in
A Thousand Acres
- But there didn't have to be any production at all, no breach, no reconciliation, no drama.†
p. 60.9breach = break or penetrate
- I pressed down the telephone button and let it up again, ready to dial Caroline's work number, except that suddenly I felt a shyness, as if there were a breach between the two of us that I had to brave.†
p. 68.2 *
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.