All breaching synonyms

verb breaching

• break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
• agreement — An agreement is a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people.
• intrude — to thrust or bring in without invitation, permission, or welcome.
• obstruct — to block or close up with an obstacle; make difficult to pass: Debris obstructed the road.
• break into — If someone breaks into a building, they get into it by force.
• impose — to lay on or set as something to be borne, endured, obeyed, fulfilled, paid, etc.: to impose taxes.
• plunder — to rob of goods or valuables by open force, as in war, hostile raids, brigandage, etc.: to plunder a town.
• pillage — to strip ruthlessly of money or goods by open violence, as in war; plunder: The barbarians pillaged every conquered city.
• ravage — to work havoc upon; damage or mar by ravages: a face ravaged by grief.
• occupy — to take or fill up (space, time, etc.): I occupied my evenings reading novels.
• storm — Theodore Woldsen [tey-aw-dawr vawlt-suh n] /ˈteɪ ɔˌdɔr ˈvɔlt sən/ (Show IPA), 1817–88, German poet and novelist.
• infect — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
• penetrate — to pierce or pass into or through: The bullet penetrated the wall. The fog lights penetrated the mist.
• loot — spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.
• infest — to live in or overrun to an unwanted degree or in a troublesome manner, especially as predatory animals or vermin do: Sharks infested the coastline.
• overrun — to rove over (a country, region, etc.); invade; ravage: a time when looting hordes had overrun the province.
• bomb — A bomb is a device which explodes and damages or destroys a large area.
• bombard — If you bombard someone with something, you make them face a great deal of it. For example, if you bombard them with questions or criticism, you keep asking them a lot of questions or you keep criticizing them.
• blockade — A blockade of a place is an action that is taken to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving it.
• harass — to disturb persistently; torment, as with troubles or cares; bother continually; pester; persecute.
• ransack — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
• swoop — to sweep through the air, as a bird or a bat, especially down upon prey.
• strafe — to attack (ground troops or installations) by airplanes with machine-gun fire.
• puncture — the act of piercing or perforating, as with a pointed instrument or object.
• burst — If something bursts or if you burst it, it suddenly breaks open or splits open and the air or other substance inside it comes out.
• tear — the act of tearing.
• shatter — to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
• sunder — to separate; part; divide; sever.
• disrupt — to cause disorder or turmoil in: The news disrupted their conference.
• sever — to separate (a part) from the whole, as by cutting or the like.
• tamper with — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
• breach — If you breach an agreement, a law, or a promise, you break it.
• violate — to break, infringe, or transgress (a law, rule, agreement, promise, instructions, etc.).
• interrupt — to cause or make a break in the continuity or uniformity of (a course, process, condition, etc.).
• steal — to take (the property of another or others) without permission or right, especially secretly or by force: A pickpocket stole his watch.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• overstep — to go beyond; exceed: to overstep one's authority.
• impugn — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
• repudiate — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
• negate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
• defy — If you defy someone or something that is trying to make you behave in a particular way, you refuse to obey them and behave in that way.
• reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
• thwart — to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
• counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
• gainsay — to deny, dispute, or contradict.
• abjure — If you abjure something such as a belief or way of life, you state publicly that you will give it up or that you reject it.
• unsettle — to alter from a settled state; cause to be no longer firmly fixed or established; render unstable; disturb: Violence unsettled the government.
• open — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
• upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
• fracture — the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.