How to pronounce breach

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What breach means

verb

Most people know breach in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To leap up out of the water, as a whale does

In a sentence: From our little boat, we watched a huge gray whale breach and land with a splash.

Where it comes from: It is the same word as the breach that means a gap. Both come from Old English words for a breaking.

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