Contravene

Definition: Contravene

Contravene

Verb

1. Go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran afould of the law"; "This behavior conflicts with our rules".

2. Deny the truth of.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "contravene" was first used: 1567. (references)

Note: Contravene \Con`tra*vene"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Contravened; present participle verb or noun Contravening.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Contravene

Confutation

Contravene (counter evidence).

Contrariety

Contradict, contravene; antagonize.

Counteraction

Verb: counteract; run counter, clash, cross; interfere with, conflict with; contravene; jostle; go against, run against, beat against, militate against; stultify; antagonize, block, oppose; traverse; withstand; (resist); hinder; repress; (restrain); react; (recoil).

Evidence

Verb: countervail, oppose; mitigate against; rebut; (refute); subvert; (destroy); cheek, weaken; contravene; contradict; (deny); tell the other side of the story, tell another story, turn the scale, alter the case; turn the tables; cut both ways; prove a negative.

Hindrance

Obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay; dam up; (close); put on the brake; Noun: scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude.

Negation

Verb: deny; contradict, contravene; controvert, give denial to, gainsay, negative, shake the head.

Opposition

Contradict, contravene; belie; go against, run against, beat against, militate against; come in conflict with.

Crosswords: Contravene

Germany undertakes: (a) Not to subject the nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers to any prohibition in regard to the exercise of occupations, professions, trade and industry, which shall not be equally applicable to all aliens without exception; (b) Not to subject the nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers in regard to the rights referred to in paragraph (a) to any regulation or restriction which might contravene directly or indirectly the stipulations of the said paragraph, or which shall be other or more disadvantageous than those which are applicable to nationals of the most favoured nation; (c) Not to subject the nationals of the Allied and Associated Powers, their property, rights or interests, including companies and associations In which they are interested, to any charge, tax or impost, direct or indirect, other or higher than those which are or may be imposed on her own nationals or their property, rights or interests; (d) Not to subject the nationals of any one of the Allied and Associated Powers to any restriction which was not applicable on July l, 1914, to the nationals of such Powers unless such restriction is likewise imposed on her own nationals. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Cyprus

No legislative, executive, or other act may contravene or interfere with the Orthodox Church or the Vakf. (references)

Maldives

The Government registers clubs and other private associations if they do not contravene Islamic or civil law. (references)

Italy

In January the country's highest appeals court ruled that the Government may shut down foreign-based Internet sites if they contravene national laws. (references)

Economic History

Azerbaijan

The new Civil Procedure Code also provides that foreign arbitral awards may be enforced in Azerbaijan so long as they do not contravene legislation or public policy, and if reciprocity exists. (references)

Political Economy

Hong Kong

The Basic Law (Article 8) stipulates that the laws in force in Hong Kong before reversion, except for any which contravene the Basic Law, remain in force. (references)

AUSTRALIA

There is no record of forced divestment outside that stemming from investments or mergers that tend to create market dominance, contravene laws on equity participation, or result from unfulfilled contractual obligations. (references)

Trade

China

Companies have difficulty determining precisely whether or not their activities contravene a particular regulation. (references)

Worker Rights

Kenya

The ILO Committee of Experts has found that these and other provisions of the law contravene ILO Conventions 29 and 105 concerning forced labor. (references)

Kenya

On December 10, the Labor Commissioner registered the Union of Kenya Civil Servants, which granted civil servants the right to join unions for the first time since 1980. The law provides that as few as seven workers may establish a union, so long as the objectives of the union do not contravene the law and no union is representing the employees in question already. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "contravene": contravene counter evidence. Additional references.

Albanian

shkel (backslide, break, disobey, encroach, entrench, evade, go back, impinge, infringe, make inroads into, muscle in, obtrude, offend, outrage, outrun, override, perambulate, poach, press, pull, step, trample, trample down, trample on, transgress, tread, tread on, trouble), dhunoj (infringe, invade, outrage, rape, violate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هاجم (assault, attack, batter, belabour, beset, challenge, charge, dispute, hit, jump, lace, layabout, light into, mount an offensive, peck, press, prey on, prong, rush, set about, storm, strafe, strike), ‏نافى, ‏إنتهك (break, encroach, invade, offend, outrage, profane, traduce, transgress, trespass). (various references)

Bulgarian 

оспорвам (call down, contest, controvert, debate, dispute, gainsay, impugn, litigate, oppugn, query, question), отивам против, противореча на (contradict). (various references)

Chinese 

违反 (Contravened, Contravening, infringement, transgression). (various references)

Czech

porušovat (tamper), překraèovat, odporovat (antagonize, contradict, gainsay, go against, oppose, protest, resist, withstand), být v rozporu (conflict). (various references)

Farsi 

نقض کردن (Breach, Break, Gainsay, Infract, Quash, Reverse, Violate), تخلف کردن از (Infringe, Transgress), تخطی کردن (Encroach, Impinge, Offend, Trepass). (various references)

French

contrevenir, enfreindre (commit an infringement upon), attaquer (commit aggression). (various references)

German

verstoßen (disown, infringe, offend, outcast, repudiate, sin, to outcast). (various references)

Greek 

συγκρούομαι (bump into, clash, collide, come into collision, conflict, conflict with, hurtle, interfere), παραβαίνω (fly in the face of, infringe, offend, overstep, transgress, trespass, violate), εναντιούμαι (buck, kick), αντικρούω (confute, controvert, counter to, impugn, oppose, oppugn, rebuff, rebut, refute, rejoin, stem, thwart, traverse, withstand), αντενεργώ (counteract, react). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"פר (annul, break, cancel, defeat, foil, violate, void). (various references)

Hungarian

megszeg (default, fail to observe, infringe, to breach, to contravene, to disobey, to infringe, to transgress, to violate, transgress, violate), ellenszegül (counteract, resist, to antagonize, to bristle up, to buck, to buck against, to contravene, to defy, to take the bit between one's teeth, to take the bit in one's teeth, withstand). (various references)

Italian

contravvenire. (various references)

Norwegian

overtre (infringe). (various references)

Pig Latin

ontravenecay

Portuguese

violar (abuse, assault, breach, defile, infringe, invade, profane, rape, ravish, transgress, violate), transgredir (break, infringe, outbreak, overpass, transgress, trespass, violate), infringir (assault, break, impinge, infringe, invade, transgress, trespass, violate). (various references)

Romanian

contraveni (violate), se opune (antagonize, balk, baulk, counter, oppose, repugn, stand, take exception to, traverse). (various references)

Russian 

нарушать (disrupt, entrench, infringe, intrench, renege, screw up, transgress, trespass against, trouble, upset, violate, violating). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prekršiti (break, foul, infringe, offend, transgress, violate), prekoračiti (cut across, exceed, go beyond, outstep, overdraw, over-draw, overpass, overstep, transcend, transgress, violate). (various references)

Spanish

violar tensamente (assault, infringe, outrage, overset, transgress), transgredir (transgress), infringir (break, infringe, tear, tear up, throw over, transgress, trespass). (various references)

Swedish

komma i strid, bestrida (challenge, contest, contradict, defray, deny, disallow, dispute, fill, gainsay, impugn, oppugn, support, traverse), överträda (disobey, entrench upon, infract, infringe, trespass). (various references)

Turkish

uymamak (be at variable with, be unsuitable, break, clash, disagree, disobey, jar, not to fit, not to match), karşı çıkmak (antagonize, argue against smth., be faced with, deprecate, disaffirm, except, face, go against, go counter to, interpose, mind, object, object to, oppose, protest, protest against, resist, run counter to, set against, traverse), itiraz etmek (argue, argue against smth., blow the whistle on, buck, challenge, contest, demur, deprecate, dispute, except, expostulate, gainsay, interpose, make an objection to, object, object to, oppose, protest, protest against, raise an objection to, remonstrate, take exception to, take objection to), başkaldırmak (bridle, oppose, rebel, revolt, revolt against, riot, rise against), çiğnemek (break, champ, chew, chump, crunch, infringe, masticate, outrage, override, run down, run over, squelch, stamp, swamp, tramp, trample, trample down, transgress, violate). (various references)

Ukrainian

іти врозріз (thwart), оспорювати (challenge, contest, controvert, quarrel, rebut), заперечувати (abnegate, answer, answer back, challenge, contradict, demur, deny, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disown, expostulate, forbid, gainsay, impugn, mind, negative, nill, object, oppugn, rejoin, talk back), порушувати (break, bring up, dislocate, disobey, exceed, infringe, interrupt, pursue, sin, subvert, transgress), переступати (bestride, overstep, stride). (various references)

contra, contravenire. (various references)

contravenir. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "contravene": contravened, contravener, contraveners, contravenes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Contravene" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cantravene, contravine. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: covenanter.

-2 letters: carotene, convener, covenant, cretonne, entrance, overneat, renovate, revenant.

-3 letters: acetone, canteen, centare, centavo, centner, connate, convene, convent, convert, corneae, coveter, crenate, enactor, enteron, neonate, nervate, novenae, ocreate, overact, overate, overeat, reenact, tenoner, veteran.

-4 letters: ancone, atoner, avocet, canner, cannot, canter, canton, cantor, careen, carnet, carton, carven, cavern, cavort, cenote, center, centra, centre, cerate.

+1 letter: contravened, contravener, contravenes, covenanters, noncreative, nonreactive.

+2 letters: contraveners.

+3 letters: concentrative, convertaplane, convertiplane.

+4 letters: convertaplanes, convertiplanes, noncooperative, noninteractive, nonretroactive.

+5 letters: neoconservatism, neoconservative, nonconservative, noncreativities, ultraconvenient.