All 15 Uses
breach
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Ancillary Justice
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- They had damaged the ship—cut conduits, breached the hull.†
p. 30.2breached = broke or penetrated
- Perhaps someone like Lieutenant Skaaiat would know how to draw Anaander Mianaai's attention to herself without breaching propriety, but Lieutenant Awn did not.†
p. 98.7breaching = breaking or penetrating
- We could just shut the temple doors and let them try their luck with the shutters on the houses, but I don't really want to find out how hard those are to breach.†
p. 115.8breach = break or penetrate
- And if Lieutenant Awn were to be punished for some breach, she wouldn't want to have publicly taken Lieutenant Awn's part no matter what her private opinion.†
p. 173.8
- The engines' heat shield was, by design, extremely difficult to breach, but I knew how to do it.†
p. 251.2
- She and what Var ancillaries she had serving her had taken my engines, and breached the heat shield.†
p. 254.6 *breached = broke or penetrated
- In the meantime we were living here, and I would have a chance to see how things stood, who might side with which Mianaai if things came to an open breach.†
p. 309.2breach = break or penetrate
- You breached the heat shield because you discovered you had already suborned me yourself, some time previously.†
p. 334.6breached = broke or penetrated
- She'll breach its heat shield and destroy us all.†
p. 348.8breach = break or penetrate
- Even after a hull breach the shuttle (unlike the sail-pod) would have enough air to take her all the way to Mercy of Kalr.†
p. 360.1
- She needed to get aboard a ship, order it closer to the palace, and breach its heat shield herself.†
p. 360.3
- Anaander Mianaai breached my heat shield.†
p. 361.1breached = broke or penetrated
- Hull breach.†
p. 364.4breach = break or penetrate
- One, vacuum suit breached, blood boiling through the tear.†
p. 364.9breached = broke or penetrated
- Which is why she breached my heat shield.†
p. 370.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(breach) break or failure
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) A less common meaning of breach is the rising and breaking out of the water by a whale.