breach

verb [T] (MAKE OPENING)

/briːtʃ/ formal

Definition

› to make an opening in a wall or fence, especially in order to attack someone or something behind it: Their defences were easily breached.Making holes in things

(Definition of breach verb (MAKE OPENING) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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