Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To disregard or act in a manner that does not conform to (a law or promise, for example).
- transitive verb To assault (a person) sexually.
- transitive verb To do harm to (property or qualities considered sacred); desecrate or defile.
- transitive verb To disturb rudely or improperly; interrupt.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.
- transitive verb 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.
- transitive verb To disturb; to interrupt.
- transitive verb To commit rape on; to ravish; to outrage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
break , disregard, disagree or not act according to (rules, conventions, etc.). - verb To
rape .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- verb destroy
- verb fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- verb force (someone) to have sex against their will
- verb destroy and strip of its possession
- verb violate the sacred character of a place or language
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Given their current role they will not be a passive player should we be foolish enough to again violate the Nuremberg prohibitions on aggressive war.
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Instead, the only violation gays routinely violate is DADT.
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Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said in a separate memo to employees that the flier "was prepared by the Marketing department and was never vetted by me or by the newsroom" and would have been "immediately killed" because its terms violate the paper's journalistic standards.
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You will, in short, violate the (four) basic principles of trustworthiness.
Charles H. Green: L'Affaire Madoff: Villain? Or Canary in the Mine? 2009
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In flight cell phone calls violate federal flight regulations.
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Of course, if the calls violate the law, one could go to court and seek an injunction to prevent further use of the improper script.
Robo-Calling: What will happen next Matt Johnston 2006
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Would releasing your name violate your right to free speech?
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Brownlee's campaign says the calls violate state law because there's no disclaimer indicating who paid for or authorized them.
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Brownlee's campaign says the calls violate state law because there's no disclaimer indicating who paid for or authorized them.
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Jones 'comments and name calling violate the newspaper's comment policy but yet his comments are not taken off.
unknown title 2009
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