Divorce vs Breach - What's the difference?

Divorce is a synonym of breach.

As nouns the difference between divorce and breach

is that divorce is a divorced man while breach is a gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture; a fissure.

As a verb breach is

to make a breach in.

divorce

English

(wikipedia divorce)

Noun

(en noun)

The legal dissolution of a marriage.

Richard obtained a divorce from his wife some years ago, but hasn't returned to the dating scene.

A separation of connected things.

The Civil War split between Virginia and West Virginia was a divorce based along cultural and economic as well as geographic lines.

* Shakespeare

to make divorce of their incorporate league

(obsolete) That which separates.

(Shakespeare)

Synonyms

* (legal dissolution of a marriage) divorcement * (separation of connected things) partition, separation, severance

Antonyms

* marriage

Derived terms

* velvet divorce

Verb

(divorc)

To legally dissolve a marriage between two people.

A ship captain can marry couples, but cannot divorce them.

To end one's own marriage in this way.

Lucy divorced Steve when she discovered that he had been unfaithful.

To separate something that was connected.

The radical group voted to divorce itself from the main faction and start an independent movement.

To obtain a legal divorce.

Edna and Simon divorced last year; he got the house, and she retained the business.

Synonyms

* (to legally dissolve a marriage) split up * (to separate something that was connected) disassociate, disjoint, dissociate, disunite, separate

Antonyms

* marry

Derived terms

* innocently divorced

breach

English

(wikipedia breach)

Noun

(es)

A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture; a fissure.

* 1599 , , Henry V , act 3, scene 1:

"Once more unto the breach , dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead."

A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.

* Shakespeare

There's fallen between him and my lord / An unkind breach .

A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf.

A clear breach''' is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean '''breach is when everything on deck is swept away.

* Bible, 2 Sam. v. 20

The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters.

* 1719 , :

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.

A breaking out upon; an assault.

* Bible, 1 Chron. xiii. 11

The Lord had made a breach upon Uzza.

(archaic) A bruise; a wound.

* Bible, Leviticus xxiv. 20

breach for breach, eye for eye

(archaic) A hernia; a rupture.

(legal) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.

(figurative) A difference in opinions, social class etc.

* 2013 September 28, , " London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):

For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , Section 3, § 12:

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;

Synonyms

* break * rift * rupture * gap

Derived terms

* breach of contract * breach of promise * breach of the peace * *

Verb

(es)

To make a breach in.

They breached the outer wall, but not the main one.

To violate or break.

* 2000 , Mobile Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc. v. United States, Justice Stevens.

"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."

(transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.

(of a whale) To leap clear out of the water.