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"word": "anticipatory breach"
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"word": "breachful"
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"word": "more honored in the breach"
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"word": "step into the breach"
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"ref": "2020 August 26, “Network News: Major flood damage severs key Edinburgh-Glasgow rail artery”, in Rail, page 21",
"text": "Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 after torrential rain and thunderstorms. The thousands of gallons of water that cascaded onto the railway line below washed away track, ballast and overhead line equipment, and undermined embankments along a 300-metre section of Scotland's busiest rail link.",
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"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
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"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
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"word": "bretxa"
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"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
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"word": "gat"
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
"word": "breĉo"
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"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
"word": "murtuma"
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"word": "brecho"
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"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
"tags": [
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"word": "bearna"
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"note": "in battle",
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"tags": [
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"word": "bearna bhaoil"
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"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
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"word": "breccia"
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"lang": "Malayalam",
"roman": "viḷḷal",
"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
"word": "വിള്ളൽ"
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"word": "വിടവ്"
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"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
"word": "mokotawhā"
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"word": "فرج"
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"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
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"word": "wyrwa"
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"word": "wyłom"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "brecha"
},
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "fissura"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "brešʹ",
"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "брешь"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prolóm",
"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
"tags": [
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"word": "проло́м"
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"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
"tags": [
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"word": "brecha"
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"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
"tags": [
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"word": "batería"
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"word": "boquete"
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"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
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"word": "bräsch"
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"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
"word": "bosluk"
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"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
"tags": [
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"word": "schård"
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"ref": "1748, David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, Section 3, § 12",
"text": "But were the poet to make a total difression from his subject, and introduce a new actor, nowise connected with the personages, the imagination, feeling a breach in transition, would enter coldly into the new scene;",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "figuratively: the act of breaking",
"word": "murros"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "figuratively: the act of breaking",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Bruch"
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"sense": "figuratively: the act of breaking",
"word": "törés"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "figuratively: the act of breaking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "breccia"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "figuratively: the act of breaking",
"word": "wāhanga"
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"sense": "figuratively: the act of breaking",
"word": "wāwāhinga"
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"sense": "figuratively: the act of breaking",
"tags": [
"singular"
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"word": "naruszenie"
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"code": "pt",
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"sense": "figuratively: the act of breaking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "brecha"
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"sense": "figuratively: the act of breaking",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "breșă"
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"sense": "figuratively: the act of breaking",
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"note": "e.g. of contract",
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"word": "briseadh"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "figuratively: the act of breaking",
"tags": [
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"word": "brecha"
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"sense": "figuratively: the act of breaking",
"word": "kirmak"
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"(law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment."
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"roman": "narušenie",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "нарушение"
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"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "porušení"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "inbreuk"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "schending"
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"code": "fi",
"english": "contract",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"topics": [
"law"
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"word": "rikkomus"
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"english": "promise",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"word": "rikkominen"
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "infraction"
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{
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "violation"
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{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"tags": [
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"word": "Verstoß"
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"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"word": "megszegés"
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"word": "megsértés"
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"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"word": "-szegés"
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"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"word": "-sértés"
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{
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"word": "visszaélés"
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"word": "wanprestasi"
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{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "infrazione"
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{
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "violazione"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"word": "takahitanga"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"word": "takahanga"
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{
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"feminine"
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"_dis1": "13 7 58 6 2 5 5 1 1",
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"word": "naruszenie"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "infração"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "încălcare"
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"_dis1": "13 7 58 6 2 5 5 1 1",
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"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
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"neuter"
],
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],
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"masculine"
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{
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{
"_dis1": "9 10 7 45 5 8 9 2 4",
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"masculine"
],
"word": "разры́в отноше́ний"
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"masculine"
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"text": "A clear breach is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean breach is when everything on deck is swept away.",
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"text": "I cast my eye to the stranded vessel, when, the breach and froth of the sea being so big, I could hardly see it, it lay so far of; and considered, Lord! how was it possible I could get on shore.",
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"word": "surf"
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 100 0 0",
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"word": "hyökkäys"
},
{
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"masculine"
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{
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"feminine"
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"word": "brecha"
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"sense": "assault",
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}
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"A bruise; a wound."
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"(archaic) A bruise; a wound."
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "razbivane na vǎlni",
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{
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{
"_dis1": "13 18 12 15 4 18 16 3 2",
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{
"_dis1": "13 18 12 15 4 18 16 3 2",
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{
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"ref": "2000, Justice Stevens., Mobile Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United States",
"text": "I therefore agree with the Court that the Government did breach its contract with petitioners in failing to approve, within 30 days of its receipt, the plan of exploration petitioners submitted.",
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{
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{
"_dis1": "0 93 5 1 1",
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"ref": "1947 January and February, H. A. Vallance, “The Sea Wall at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 18",
"text": "On this occasion, the damage was far more serious. The sea wall was breached completely for a distance of over 50 yd., and the gap had to be bridged by a temporary timber viaduct.",
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],
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},
{
"_dis1": "0 39 61 0 0",
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}
]
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"ref": "1835, Joseph C. Hart, Miriam Coffin, or The whale-fishermen, volume 2, Harper & brothers, page 147",
"text": "The fearless whale-fishermen now found themselves in the midst of the monsters; ... some ... came jumping into the light of day, head uppermost, exhibiting their entire bodies in the sun, and falling on their sides into the water with the weight of a hundred tons, and thus \"breaching\" with a crash that the thunder of a park of artillery could scarcely equal.",
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{
"ref": "1837, Robert Hamilton, The natural history of the ordinary cetacea or whales, W.H. Lizars, page 166",
"text": "But one of its most surprising feats, as has been mentioned of the genera already described, is leaping completely out of the water, or 'breaching,' as it is called. ... it seldom breaches more than twice or thrice at a time, and in quick succession.",
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},
{
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{
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"ref": "2011 June 7, D.A. Harris, “R. v. Larochelle, 2011 ONCJ 339”, in CanLII, retrieved 2021-10-10",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "a gap or opening made by breaking or battering",
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"sense": "figuratively: the act of breaking",
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{
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{
"code": "nl",
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"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
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{
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{
"code": "fr",
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{
"code": "fr",
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{
"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
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"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"word": "wanprestasi"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
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"word": "infrazione"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "violazione"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"word": "takahitanga"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
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"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
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"code": "oc",
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"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "naruszenie"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "infração"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "încălcare"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
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"word": "наруше́ние"
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"code": "gd",
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"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
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"masculine"
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"code": "es",
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"feminine"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"word": "talusira"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"word": "pagtatalusira"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "break of a law or obligation",
"word": "kanun disi is yapmak"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "skǎsvane na otnošenija",
"sense": "breaking up of amicable relations",
"word": "скъсване на отношения"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "breaking up of amicable relations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "breuk"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "breaking up of amicable relations",
"word": "välirikko"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "breaking up of amicable relations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "brouille"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "breaking up of amicable relations",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Bruch"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "breaking up of amicable relations",
"word": "összeveszés"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "breaking up of amicable relations",
"word": "viszály"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "breaking up of amicable relations",
"word": "nézeteltérés"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "breaking up of amicable relations",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "breaking up of amicable relations",
"word": "elhidegülés"
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{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "breaking up of amicable relations",
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "breaking up of amicable relations",
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"masculine"
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"word": "término"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "razrýv otnošénij",
"sense": "breaking up of amicable relations",
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"masculine"
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"word": "разры́в отноше́ний"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "breaking up of amicable relations",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "disolución"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "breaking of waves",
"tags": [
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "breaking of waves",
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "breaking of waves",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "breaking of waves",
"word": "hullámtörés"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "breaking of waves",
"word": "puapua"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "breaking of waves",
"word": "tūātea"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "breaking of waves",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "quebrada"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "assault",
"word": "hyökkäys"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"roman": "šturm",
"sense": "assault",
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"word": "штурм"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
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"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
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"Rhymes:English/iːtʃ",
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"text": "They breached the outer wall, but not the main one."
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"(transitive) To make a breach in."
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"ref": "2000, Justice Stevens., Mobile Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United States",
"text": "I therefore agree with the Court that the Government did breach its contract with petitioners in failing to approve, within 30 days of its receipt, the plan of exploration petitioners submitted.",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1947 January and February, H. A. Vallance, “The Sea Wall at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 18",
"text": "On this occasion, the damage was far more serious. The sea wall was breached completely for a distance of over 50 yd., and the gap had to be bridged by a temporary timber viaduct.",
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"(transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence."
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"ref": "1835, Joseph C. Hart, Miriam Coffin, or The whale-fishermen, volume 2, Harper & brothers, page 147",
"text": "The fearless whale-fishermen now found themselves in the midst of the monsters; ... some ... came jumping into the light of day, head uppermost, exhibiting their entire bodies in the sun, and falling on their sides into the water with the weight of a hundred tons, and thus \"breaching\" with a crash that the thunder of a park of artillery could scarcely equal.",
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{
"ref": "1837, Robert Hamilton, The natural history of the ordinary cetacea or whales, W.H. Lizars, page 166",
"text": "But one of its most surprising feats, as has been mentioned of the genera already described, is leaping completely out of the water, or 'breaching,' as it is called. ... it seldom breaches more than twice or thrice at a time, and in quick succession.",
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}
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"To leap out of the water."
],
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],
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"(intransitive, of a whale) To leap out of the water."
],
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"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
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"ref": "2011 June 7, D.A. Harris, “R. v. Larochelle, 2011 ONCJ 339”, in CanLII, retrieved 2021-10-10",
"text": "[…]the Pre-Sentence Report states that: \"He was breached by the probation officer within several months of the commencement of the Probation Order for failing to report as he relocated to another Province and did not report there as directed.[…]\"",
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}
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"(law, informal, transitive, usually passive) To charge or convict (someone) of breaching the terms of a bail, probation, recognizance, etc."
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},
{
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},
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "probívam",
"sense": "to make a breach in",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "проби́вам"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to make a breach in",
"word": "breĉi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make a breach in",
"word": "rikkoa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to make a breach in",
"word": "särkeä"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make a breach in",
"word": "áttör"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make a breach in",
"word": "behatol"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make a breach in",
"word": "betör"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make a breach in",
"word": "rést üt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to make a breach in",
"word": "átszakít"
},
{
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to make a breach in",
"word": "brechizar"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "narušávam",
"sense": "to violate or break",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "наруша́вам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to violate or break",
"word": "rikkoa"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to violate or break",
"word": "megszeg"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to violate or break",
"word": "megsért"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to violate or break",
"word": "takahi"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to violate or break",
"word": "naruszyć"
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"roman": "nahlúvam",
"sense": "of the sea, to break",
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"word": "нахлу́вам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of the sea, to break",
"word": "murtua"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "of a whale, to leap clear",
"word": "hypätä"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "of a whale, to leap clear",
"word": "felbukkan"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "of a whale, to leap clear",
"word": "kiugrik"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "of a whale, to leap clear",
"word": "kiemelkedik"
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