Definitions
a failure to perform some promised act or obligation
Word origin
From Middle English breche, from Old English bryċe (“fracture, breach”) and brǣċ (“breach, breaking, destruction”), from Proto-West Germanic *bruki, from Proto-Germanic *brukiz (“breach, fissure”) and *brēkō (“breaking”).
Used in a sentence
“"Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead."”
“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;”
“breach of promise”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Break or gap”6 letters
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