Violate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To break or disregard (a law or promise, for example).
  • v. To assault (a person) sexually.
  • v. To do harm to (property or qualities considered sacred); desecrate or defile.
  • v. To disturb rudely or improperly; interrupt: violated our privacy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To break, disregard, disagree or not act according to (rules, conventions, etc.).
  • v. To rape.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.
  • v. To do violence to, as to anything that should be held sacred or respected; to profane; to desecrate; to break forcibly; to trench upon; to infringe.
  • v. To disturb; to interrupt.
  • v. To commit rape on; to ravish; to outrage.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To treat roughly or injuriously; handle so as to harm or hurt; do violence to; outrage.
  • To break in upon; interrupt; disturb.
  • To desecrate; dishonor; treat with irreverence; profane, or meddle with profanely.
  • To infringe; transgress, as a contract, law, promise, or the like, either by a positive act contrary to the promise, etc., or by neglect or non-fulfilment: as, to violate confidence.
  • To ravish; deflower by force; commit rape on.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
  • v. destroy
  • v. fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
  • v. force (someone) to have sex against their will
  • v. destroy and strip of its possession
  • v. violate the sacred character of a place or language
  • Verb Form
    violated    violates    violating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    touch    disturb    destroy    ruin    assault    assail    attack    Seton   
    Cross Reference
    illtreat    rape   
    Form
    violation    violative   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    profane    deflour    infringe    dishonor    injure    disturb    interrupt    debauch    transgress    desecrate   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts