ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Pierced or cleft with a breach; rent, torn. Also fig.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, ccliii. 85 b. A medecine for Bryched persones, I do nat knowe.
a. 1649. Drumm. of Hawth., Poems, Wks. (1711), 35/2. Conquering squadrons … Entring a breached city.
1762–9. Falconer, Shipwr., II. 719. Our sea-breach’d vessel.
1854. H. Miller, Sch. & Schm. (1858), 255. Attired in a sadly-breached suit of Aberdeen grey.
