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breach
A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee / embankment; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence
A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves
"A clear breach is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean breach is when everything on deck is swept away."
To make a breach in.
"They breached the outer wall, but not the main one."
To violate or break.
(of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
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