breached
SayBREECHT/bɹit͡ʃt/
- 1Simple past and past participle of breach.
Floodwaters breached the levee just after midnight.
Investigators found that the contractor had breached the terms of the agreement.
Note
A regular -ed form that serves as both simple past and participle, so the auxiliary tells them apart: the levee breached, had breached, was breached. A dam can be breached by water or can simply have breached on its own, and a whale that leaps clear of the sea has breached too. One informal use lives almost entirely in the passive: a worker was breached for failing to meet a legal obligation.
breached is a form of breach
breach, verb: To violate or break a law, agreement, or obligation. Full entry
- Spelling
- breach → breached: add -ed
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