Breach vs. Broach — What's the Difference?

An opening, tear, or rupture.

To bring up (a subject) for discussion or debate.

A gap or rift, especially in a solid structure such as a dike or fortification.

To announce

A violation or infraction, as of a contract, law, legal obligation, or promise.

To pierce in order to draw off liquid

A breaking up or disruption of friendly relations; an estrangement.

To draw off (a liquid) by piercing a hole in a cask or other container.

A leap of a whale from the water.

To shape or enlarge (a hole) with a tapered, serrated tool.

The breaking of waves or surf.

To veer or cause to veer broadside to the wind and waves

To make a hole or gap in; break through.

A tapered, serrated tool used to shape or enlarge a hole.

To break or violate (an agreement, for example).

The hole made by such a tool.

To leap from the water

A spit for roasting meat.

To develop a hole or opening. Used especially of protective embankments

A mason's narrow chisel.

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 gimlet for tapping or broaching casks.

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

Variant of brooch.

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

A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.

A breaking out upon; an assault.

(masonry) A broad chisel for stone-cutting.

(archaic) A bruise; a wound.

Alternative spelling of brooch

(archaic) A hernia; a rupture.

A spit for cooking food.

(legal) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment

An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.

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

A spire rising from a tower.

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

A spit-like start on the head of a young stag.

(transitive) To make a breach in.

The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.

(transitive) To violate or break.

The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.

To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.

(transitive) To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.

To leap out of the water.

(transitive) To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.

To charge or convict (someone) of breaching the terms of a bail, probation, recognizance, etc.

To begin discussion about (something).

The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

(intransitive) To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.

Specifically: 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.

(transitive) To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).

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

To break the surface of the water.

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

A spit.

A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.

An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.

A bruise; a wound.

A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.

A hernia; a rupture.

A broad chisel for stonecutting.

A breaking out upon; an assault.

A spire rising from a tower.

To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.

A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.

To break the water, as by leaping out; - said of a whale.

A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.

A failure to perform some promised act or obligation

The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.

An opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)

The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.

A personal or social separation (as between opposing factions);

To spit; to pierce as with a spit.

Act in disregard of laws and rules;

To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.

Make an opening or gap in

To open for the first time, as stores.

To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.

To cause to begin or break out.

To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.

To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.

A decorative pin worn by women

Bring up a topic for discussion