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Definition: VIOLATING |
VIOLATINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Violate |
Date "VIOLATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nonobservance | Adjective: violating; Verb: lawless, transgressive; elusive, evasive. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: VIOLATING |
| English words defined with "VIOLATING": Burghbrech ♦ cheating ♦ dirty ♦ foul ♦ illegality, immoral, inaesthetic, Inquisition ♦ offensive ♦ unaesthetic, unjust, unsporting, unsportsmanlike ♦ violative ♦ wrongful. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "VIOLATING": canal-lock tender, chief operator, chief lock-operator, code police, Confidential Individual Information System ♦ defects of the system, DEPUTY SHERIFF, GRAND JURY, deputy, grand jury, DETECTIVE, NARCOTICS AND VICE ♦ Graphics Interchange Format ♦ INVESTIGATOR, VICE ♦ LOCK TENDER, CHIEF OPERATOR ♦ mail bomb, morals-squad police officer, mouse arrest ♦ nasal demons ♦ STATE-HIGHWAY POLICE OFFICER ♦ vice-squad police officer. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "VIOLATING": Violate. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He's violating Sea Breeze (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) Okay, then you're violating the first rule of being Steve (The Tao of Steve; writing credit: Duncan North; Greer Goodman) In My Country, for Violating sacred beast you get beaten to death with bamboo stick (Say It Isn't So; writing credit: Peter Gaulke; Gerry Swallow) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Norman O. Brown | Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | Besides the crime which consists in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of reason, whereby a man so far becomes degenerate, and declares himself to quit the principles of human nature, and to be a noxious creature, there is commonly injury done to some person or other, and some other man receives damage by his transgression: in which case he who hath received any damage, has, besides the right of punishment common to him with other men, a particular right to seek reparation from him that has done it: and any other person, who finds it just, may also join with him that is injured, and assist him in recovering from the offender so much as may make satisfaction for the harm he has suffered. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | How immoral to impose it on them, if they were to be used as the instruments, and the knowing instruments, for violating what they swear to support! (reference) |
United Nations | 1948 | Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Your employer may be violating laws that protect you from unfair practices. (references) | |
Children | Jordan | Education is compulsory until the age of 16; however, no legislation exists to enforce the law or punish guardians for violating it, and children who do not attend school or attend infrequently are not considered truant. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Nepal | The act also includes penalties for violating these requirements. (references) |
Bangladesh | Siddiqi held the rally 50 yards from the college grounds, thus violating the ban. (references) | |
Economic History | Sri Lanka | Each side in the conflict accused the other of violating human rights. (references) |
Bulgaria | The Committee may advise other agencies to correct decisions violating the law, and may even challenge such decisions in the courts. (references) | |
Lebanon | In spring 2000, the MPT accused the two GSM operators of violating their contracts and claimed from each $300 million for alleged violations. (references) | |
Human Rights | Benin | Somasse was accused of violating the law against campaigning on election day. (references) |
United Arab Emirates | Most of the prisoners pardoned were foreign nationals convicted of violating immigration laws. (references) | |
Bhutan | No one was prosecuted in connection with violating prohibitions against torture during the year. (references) | |
Minorities | Greece | The Roma of Tyrnavos, Thessaly, attempted to build their own lavatories in order to improve their living conditions, but local authorities pulled them down and imposed fines for violating construction codes. (references) |
Poland | The firing followed the unsuccessful prosecution of Ratajczak in December 1999 for violating the law on the preservation of national remembrance, a provision of which criminalizes public denials of Nazi and Communist-era crimes. (references) | |
Poland | Local authorities initiated an official investigation to determine whether identifiable demonstrators should be charged with violating laws that prohibit displays of Fascist symbols and public insults to persons on the basis of national, ethnic or racial identity. (references) | |
Political Economy | POLAND | In the last several years, there have been only a few cases where Polish unions have charged such companies with violating Polish labor law, and cases have been largely resolved. (references) |
Venezuela | Under the name of labor reform, the government held a public referendum on the internal organization of labor unions on December 3, 2000, violating labor independence and freedom of association. (references) | |
Political Rights | Zimbabwe | In October 2000, the MDC brought a motion to Parliament to impeach President Mugabe for violating the Constitution and for gross misconduct. (references) |
Trade | Turkey | Treasury's Banking and Exchange General Directorate conducts criminal investigations of banks and is the government agency that determines punitive actions taken against institutions violating banking or securities laws. (references) |
Travel | Ecuador | Persons violating Ecuadorian laws, even unknowingly, may be expelled, arrested or imprisoned. (references) |
Women | South Africa | Violating a protection order is punishable by a prison sentence of up to 5 years, or 20 years if additional criminal charges, including indecent assault, rape, incest, attempted murder, malicious damage to property, or pointing a firearm, are made. (references) |
Worker Rights | Russia | The penalty for violating border laws with fraudulent documents was up to 3 years. (references) |
Singapore | Convicted traffickers would typically be found guilty of violating more than one law. (references) | |
Malaysia | Like other employers, labor contractors may be prosecuted for violating the labor laws. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "VIOLATING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "VIOLATING" is used about 118 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 100% | 118 | 29,674 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
probation violating | 5 |
court order violating | 4 |
cjb.net policy terminated violating | 3 |
violating | 3 |
man trannies violating | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "VIOLATING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 违犯 (infringe, Infringed, Infringing, Violate, violated, Violates). (various references) | |
French | violant. (various references) | |
German | verletzend (abusive, blasphemous, blessing, harmful, hurtful, hurtfully, hurting, infringing, injuring, mischievous, nasty, upsetting), übertretend (passing over, transgressing, trespassing). (various references) | |
Korean | 위반 (infringement, Offence, Offense, Violation). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iolatingvay.(various references) | |
Russian | нарушать (contravene, disrupt, entrench, infringe, intrench, renege, screw up, transgress, trespass against, trouble, upset, violate). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "VIOLATING" (pronounced vī"ulāting) |
| 6 | -u l ā t i ng | correlating. |
| 4 | -ā t i ng | hallucinating, insinuating, lactating, mutating, relocating, vacating, vibrating. |
| 3 | -t i ng | annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, confronting, congratulating, connecting, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-i-l-n-o-t-v" | |
-1 letter: intaglio, ligation, vigilant. | |
-2 letters: antilog, intagli, invital, tailing, toiling, vailing, vialing. | |
-3 letters: ailing, galiot, gitano, latigo, latino, laving, living, loving, nilgai, ogival, oiling, talion, tiglon, tiling, toling, violin, volant, voling, voting. | |
-4 letters: aioli, algin, align, aloin, along, anvil, avion, gavot, giant, glint, gloat, gonia, ingot, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, litai, logan, logia, lovat, nival. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-i-l-n-o-t-v" | |
+1 letter: bloviating, levigation. | |
+2 letters: dovetailing, invigilator, levigations, outcaviling, outrivaling. | |
+3 letters: invigilation, invigilators, navigational, outcavilling, outrivalling, volatilising, volatilizing. | |
+4 letters: cocultivating, galvanization, gravitational, invigilations, originatively, overinflating, vulgarization. | |
+5 letters: countervailing, evangelization, galvanizations, invigoratingly, navigationally, vulgarizations, vulvovaginitis. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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