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Answer for the clue "Burst through, as a barrier ", 8 letters:
breached

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Word definitions for breached in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Breach \Breach\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Breached ; p. pr. & vb. n. Breaching .] To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: breach )

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. forcibly broken through or opened up; "the enemy poured through the breached line of defense"

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Breached is a Canadian rock band from Toronto , Ontario . In 2014 the band's members include Bobby Noakes (vocals), Mike Diesel (guitar/vocals), Ryan Alexander (Bass), and Neil Uppal (drums).

Usage examples of breached.

And once they breached the wall, the fall of the town would follow shortly.

With the south wall breached, the town rapidly fell into the hands of the enemy.

When the gates fell, however, or the wall was breached, the Riders would have their opportunity.

On the opposite side of the castle, the Bloodriders had already breached the palisade, and fighting raged in the courtyard.

When Branson spoke his voice was cold, almost savage, a marked departure from the norm: even Branson had defences that could be breached.

By a 'big storm', one would assume that it would have to be a storm of the order of the one that breached the delta defences in 1953 and took 1,850 lives.

The dykes north and south of Lelystad will be breached a few minutes after midnight.

Its armament, at that stage, had been removed, its magazines emptied, all but the essential watertight bulkheads breached or partially cut away, the operating theatre completed, as were the cabins for the medical staff and the dispensary, already fully stocked: the medical store was almost finished, the galley partially so, whereas work had not yet begun on the wards, the recovery room and messes.

Only Luthien or Oliver or she could lead the main group back across the apse and through the breached eastern wall, back into the streets of the lower section, where they would scatter to safety.

Shuglin didn’t get through, but his allies used him as a stepping-stone and the barrier was quickly breached.

Rather, they pounded their way through the eastern wall, where it had been breached before, up from the city’s lower section and back into the Ministry once again.

Timothy's house had been breached once again, but with a far greater degree of subtlety than Klaus Margle had employed some two weeks ago .

Why couldn't he have reached within his own body and cured whatever was wrong with him, just as Timothy had found he could cure his own wounds, heal breached flesh?

A small man jumped down from the tree as they breached the knoll, his dark eyes darting nervously about.

He clapped his son's shoulder and followed his troops in through the breached mushroom fence.