Breached

Lake Erie is known for seiches, especially when strong winds blow from southwest to northeast. In 1844, a 22-foot seiche breached a 14-foot-high sea wall killing 78 people and damming the ice to the extent that Niagara Falls temporarily stopped flowing.

Sami breached the contract.

He breached diplomatic protocol.

Our computer network has been breached over multiple years.

The perimeter has been breached.

Breached and battered, the ruin stands in a grove of ilex on a very beautiful promontory.

Martino has breached the facility.

Engineers in New Orleans said they expected heavy rains to cause some flooding, but the storm had not breached levee walls built to hold back Lake Pontchartrain.

For example, according to Stein, efforts are being made to prevent a recurrence of what happened during super storm Sandy: salty ocean water driven by the storm surge breached the freshwater marsh systems on the Atlantic coast, contaminating critical shore bird habitats.