broach

1. (transitive) To make a hole in, especially a cask of liquor, and put in a tap in order to draw the liquid.Examples: "How often has the broached barrel proved not to be for joy and heart effusion, but for duel and head-breakage."transitive

2. (transitive) To open, to make an opening into; to pierce.Examples: "French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line."transitive

3. (transitive, figuratively) To begin discussion about (something).Examples: "I broached the subject of contraceptives carefully when the teenager mentioned his promiscuity."; "Yet he was much too much scared of broaching any man, let alone one in a peaked cap, to dare to ask."; "I have tried on several occasions to broach the subject of my love to Lys; but she will not listen."Synonyms: springfigurativelytransitive

1. (intransitive)To be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.Examples: "The small boat broached and nearly sank, because of the large waves."intransitive

2. (transitive) To cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also figurative).Examples: "18th C, Thomas Dibdin, Tom Bowling Here a sheer hulk lies poor Tom Bowling ... for death hath broached him to."; "Each time we came around into the wind, the sea broached our bow."transitive

3. (nautical, intransitive, of a submerged submarine, torpedo, or similar) To break the surface of the water.Examples: "The Politovskiy soared through the surface of the Atlantic like a broaching whale, coming three quarters of her length out of the water before crashing back."intransitive