Violate

Definitions: Violate

Violate

Verb

1. Fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns; "He violated the agreement to stay away from his ex-wife"; "You are breaking the law!".

2. Act in disregard of laws and rules; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law".

3. Harm or destroy; "Don't violate my garden".

4. Violate the sacred character of a place, such as a graveyard.

5. Assault sexually; force to have sex.

6. Destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country".

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

Date "violate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Etymology: Violate \Vi"o*late\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Violates; present participle verb or noun Violating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Violate

Dereliction of Duty

Verb: violate; break, break through; infringe; set aside, set at naught; encroach upon, trench upon; trample on, trample under foot; slight, neglect, evade, renounce, forswear, repudiate; wash one's hands of; escape, transgress, fail.

Desuetude

Verb: be -unaccustomed; Adjective: leave off a habit, cast off a habit, break off a habit, wean oneself of a habit, violate a habit, break through a habit, infringe a habit, leave off a custom, cast off a custom, break off a custom, wean oneself of a custom, violate a custom, break through a custom, infringe a custom, leave off a usage, cast off a usage, break off a usage, wean oneself of a usage, violate a usage, break through a usage, infringe a usage; disuse; wear off.

Disobedience

Verb: disobey, violate, infringe; shirk; set at defiance; (defy); set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face of; take the law into one's own hands; kick over the traces.

Illegality

Verb: offend against the law; violate the law, infringe the law, break the law; set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute; ignore the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands.

Impurity

Verb: be impure; Adjective: intrigue; debauch, defile, seduce; prostitute; abuse, violate, deflower; commit adultery;n.

Nonobservance

Infringe, transgress, violate, pirate, break, trample under foot, do violence to, drive a coach and six through.

Unconformity

Verb: be uncomformable; Adjective: abnormalize; leave the beaten track, leave the beaten path; infringe a law, infringe a habit, infringe a usage, infringe a custom, break a law, break a habit, break a usage, break a custom, violate a law, violate a habit, violate a usage, violate a custom; drive a coach and six through; stretch a point; have no business there; baffle all description, beggar all description.

Undueness

Infringe, encroach, trench on, exact; arrogate, arrogate to oneself; give an inch and take an ell; stretch a point, strain a point; usurp, violate, do violence to.

Crosswords: Violate

Does this violate the doctor-patient relationship? (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck)

Don't you violate me ("Where My Girls At"; performing artist: 702)

Violate all my love that I'm missing ("#1 Crush"; performing artist: Garbage)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Does the War on Drugs Violate Civil Liberties (reference)

• How to Enforce Consequences When Kids Violate Limits (reference)

• The Paradigm Conspiracy: How Our Systems of Government, Church, School, and Culture Violate Our Human Potenial (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Violate This (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

State criminal abortion laws, like those involved here, that except from criminality only a life-saving procedure on the mother's behalf without regard to the stage of her pregnancy and other interests involved violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which protects against state action the right to privacy, including a woman's qualified right to terminate her pregnancy. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

At our own risk and peril, we violate that prohibition.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Indeed, many nursing homes violate the elements traditionally associated with culturally and socially relevant definitions of "home," in that residents have little control over whom they live with, who comes and goes in their personal space, and other aspects of the environment such as furnishings and appointments. (references)

Business

Spain applies the "freedom of contract" theory, by which the contracting parties may establish any stipulation, condition, or undertake anything that it does not violate Spanish law, morals, or public policy. (references)

Furthermore, emission charges will be imposed on emission facilities, which violate standards of TSP, SO2, etc. The MOE has reduced the maximum permissible sulfur content of diesel and B-C oil and has encouraged the use of cleaner burning fuels. (references)

Children

Dominican Republic

The ages at which these children work, the hours they work, and their failure to comply with compulsory school attendance all violate the law, but the Government has not been able to combat this practice. (references)

India

In some cases, the Commission had acted to transfer oversight of homes to private voluntary organizations "after the (state) government failed to provide a healthy environment to children in these homes." In its February 2000 concluding observations regarding the country, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child expressed concern about "numerous reports of routine ill-treatment, corporal punishment, torture and sexual abuse of children in detention facilities, and alleged instances of killings of children living and/or working on the streets by law enforcement officials." The Committee also expressed concern "at the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions of detention of children, including detention with adults; lack of application and enforcement of existing juvenile justice legislation; lack of training for professionals, including the judiciary, lawyers and law enforcement officers, in relation to the Convention (on the Rights of the Child), other existing international standards and the Juvenile Justice Act; and the lack of measures and enforcement thereof to prosecute officials who violate these provisions." The Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Act prohibits child marriage, a traditional practice in the northern part of the country. (references)

Civil Liberties

Papua New Guinea

Those who violate conditions of their residency can be repatriated. (references)

Discrimination

Zambia

Constitutional amendments barring native-born citizens of partial or full foreign ancestry from the presidency appear to violate the prohibition on discrimination based on place of origin. (references)

Economic History

Syria

Still others been unable to register trademarks without providing assurances that would violate U.S. anti-boycott laws. (references)

China

Applications may be denied if approval would endanger China's national security or violate China's laws and regulations. (references)

Human Rights

Dominican Republic

The authorities commonly violate these rights. (references)

Jordan

Persons who violate the terms of their house arrest may be imprisoned for up to 14 days. (references)

Peru

Although the authorities must arraign arrested persons within 24 hours, they often violate this requirement. (references)

Minorities

Mexico

The Adventist Church reported that individuals in the communities of Vicente Guerrero and Juan Sabines have complained that the opening of an Adventist church in neighboring Francisco I. Madero, Tecapatan municipality, would violate local "practices and customs." In March Francisco I. Madero residents requested local government assistance in relieving tension among the communities and convincing the neighboring communities of the Adventists' right to use their place of worship. (references)

Political Economy

ITALY

The ban appears to violate EU regulations. (references)

Vietnam

It enforces laws and regulations that significantly restrict individual liberties and violate other human rights. (references)

Political Rights

Yemen

In addition the Constitution prohibits the establishment of parties that are contrary to Islam, oppose the goals of the Yemeni revolution, or violate the country's international commitments. (references)

Trade

Japan

These include narcotics, firearms, counterfeit currency, pornography, and products that violate intellectual property laws. (references)

Mexico

Because customs brokers are subject to sanctions if they violate customs laws, some have been very restrictive in their interpretation of Mexican regulations and standards. (references)

Travel

Nigeria

These are usually both fraudulent and illegal and could involve situations that potentially violate both Nigerian and U.S. law. (references)

Women

China

Increasingly companies discriminate by both sex and age, although such practices violate labor laws. (references)

Brazil

Employers who violate the law are subject to a jail term ranging from 1 to 2 years, while the company must pay a fine equal to 10 times the salary of its highest-paid employee. (references)

Worker Rights

Pakistan

Some provincial laws appear to violate the BLAA. (references)

Paraguay

However, many employers violate these provisions in practice. (references)

Vietnam

Government officials have the power to fine and, in cases of Criminal Code violations, prosecute employers who violate child Labor Laws. (references)

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "violate": provocation and incitement to violate military duties ♦ violate an oath ♦ violate the law ♦ violate woman's honour. Additional references.

Afrikaan

aanrand (assault). (various references)

Albanian

shkel ligjin, prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, infringe, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), përdhunoj (assault, deflower, rape, ravish), nuk respektoj, dhunoj një varr, dhunoj (contravene, infringe, invade, outrage, rape), cenoj (harm, impinge, offend, outrage, prejudice). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسر (breach, break, breakage, breaking, crash, crush, defeat, double, fold, fraction, fracture, fracturing, infringe, pleat, rout, shatter, shattering, smash, smashing, tuck, vanquish), ‏إنتهك حرمة (infringe, molest, poach, trespass), ‏إغتصب إمرأة (ravish), ‏إعتدى (assault, invade, molest), ‏دنس (defile, desecrate, grubby, impure, ordure, pollute, pollution, profane, profanity, scum, soil, sullying). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смущавам (become confused, confound, confuse, discompose, disconcert, discountenance, disturb, flurry, gravel, incommode, muddle, mystify, obfuscate, perplex, perturb, put off, put out, rattle, ruffle, throw out, unbalance, wake, wilder), осквернявам (befoul, contaminate, defile, desecrate, do violence to, pollute, profane), нарушавам (disobey, forswear, infringe, intrench, invade, outrage, outstep, poach, trouble), профанирам (defile, do violence to, profane), престъпвам (outrage, outstep, overstep, poach, transgress, trespass), потъпквам (mortify, repress, stamp out, suppress, trample on, tread down, tread out, tread under), погазвам (dishonor, dishonour, override, trample, trample on, trangress), изнасилвам (abuse, assault, deflower, do violence to, rape, ravish). (various references)

Chinese 

违犯 (infringe, Infringed, Infringing, violated, Violates, Violating), 侵犯 (to encroach on, to infringe on). (various references)

Czech

znesvìtit (defile, desecrate, profane), znásilnit (outrage, rape, ravish), zhanobit (desecrate, taint), porušit (blemish, break, disobey, disturb, infringe, upset, vitiate), poškodit (aggrieve, corrupt, damage, harm, hurt, impair, injure, prejudice, scar). (various references)

Danish

ikke ændre sig (to). (various references)

Dutch

een aanslag plegen op (assault), aanranden (assault). (various references)

Esperanto

perforti (force), atenci (assault). (various references)

Faeroese

neyðtaka (force). (various references)

Farsi 

مختل کردن (Disarrange, Disorder, Disorganize, Hamper, Queer, Unhinge), هتک احترام کردن , نقض کردن (Breach, Break, Contravene, Gainsay, Infract, Quash, Reverse), تجاوزکردن به (Poach), شکستن (Break, Chop, Cleave, Crackle, Disobey, Fraction, Fracture, Infract, Infraction, Nick, Refract, Shatter, Smite, Stave), بی حرمت ساختن (Outrage). (various references)

Finnish

rikkoa (break, infringe, to, to break, to fracture, to rupture, to tear, trepass), loukata (hurt, infringe, injure, insult, offend, to). (various references)

French

violer, enfreindre, attenter. (various references)

Frisian

oantaaste (assault, corrode), oanpakke (approach, assault, begin, commence, deal with, start, tackle). (various references)

German

verletzen (abuse, bless, blessed, blest, breach, break, bruise, commit an infringement upon, damage, harm, hurt, infringe, infringe upon, injure, insult, lacerate, offend, spoil, to, to bruise, to hurt, to infringe, to injure, touch, transgress, upset, wound), vergewaltigen (butcher, force, murder, mutilate, rape). (various references)

Greek 

παραβιάζω (breach, break, break in, infringe, tamper with, violcte), παραβαίνω (contravene, fly in the face of, infringe, offend, overstep, transgress, trespass). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחלל (debase, defile, desecrate, profane), ל�"פר (annul, break, cancel, contravene, defeat, foil, void). (various references)

Hungarian

megszeg (contravene, default, fail to observe, infringe, to breach, to contravene, to disobey, to infringe, to transgress, to violate, transgress), megsért (affront, give offence, give offense, hurt, injure, insult, pique, to affront, to contravene, to entrench upon, to harm, to hurt, to injure, to insult, to miscall, to offend, to outrage, to violate, to wound, to wrong). (various references)

Indonesian

mencabuli (ravish), melanggar (encroachupon, infringe, offend), langgar (break, mosque, trespass), jalir (break (promise), see: ingkar). (various references)

Italian

violare (break, defile, impinge, infringe, outrage, rape, to), assalire (assail, assault, attack, beset, mob, raid, rankle, set about, set upon, storm), aggredire (assault, attack, snap off). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� �る (to defeat, to destroy, to smash, to tear, to violate), 侵す (to intrude on, to invade, to raid, to trespass, to violate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おかす (to brave, to commit, to desecrate, to face, to intrude on, to invade, to perpetrate, to profane, to raid, to rape, to risk, to trespass, to venture, to violate), きそく�'やぶる (to break the rule, to violate the rules), き�"�'おかす (to break the prohibition, to violate the ban), ふれる (to be emotionally moved, to be touched, to deflect, to feel, to lean towards, to perceive, to shake, to swing, to touch, to touch on a subject, to violate, to wave), のり�'�"える (to violate the laws of nature), ほうにふれる (to violate the law), ほう�'おかす (to violate the law), �"っきょう�'おかす (to invade the frontier district, to violate the border), やぶる (to defeat, to destroy, to smash, to tear, to violate). (various references)

Korean 

위반하십시�". (various references)

Manx

jannoo aggair (injure, wrong). (various references)

Pig Latin

iolatevay

Portuguese

violar (abuse, assault, breach, contravene, defile, infringe, invade, profane, rape, ravish, to, transgress), infringir (assault, break, contravene, impinge, infringe, invader, transgress, trespass). (various references)

Romanian

viola (assault, break, force, infringe, infringe on, infringe upon, outrage, rape, ravish), tulbura liniştea, silui (abuse, force, outrage, rape), profana (defile, desecrate, pollute, profane), pângãri (besmear, defile, desecrate, dishonor, dishonour, foul, stain), nesocoti o lege, necinsti (blemish, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, rape, ravish, shame), forţa (break, compel, constrain, endeavor, endeavour, force, huff, impose, open, ravish, stretch, urge), contraveni (contravene), cãlca (break, calender, foot, go, hot-press, infringe, iron, mangle, press, smooth, step, tread, trespass), batjocori (abuse, bemock, deride, disdain, flout, rape, satirize, scoff, scorn, shame, taunt), încãlca (break, defy, impinge, infringe, infringe on, infringe upon, invade, overrun, poach, scorn, usurp). (various references)

Russian 

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

Scottish

truaill (a sheath, defile, pollute, profane, scabbard, sheath). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

silovati (outrage, rape, ravish), prekršiti (break, contravene, foul, infringe, offend, transgress), prekoračiti (contravene, cut across, exceed, go beyond, outstep, overdraw, over-draw, overpass, overstep, transcend, transgress), povrediti (damage, encroach, hurt, impinge, injure, job, sear, wound), narušiti (disturb, infringe). (various references)

Spanish

asalter (assault), violar (abuse, breach, break, leak, rape, ravish, tear, tear up, throw over, to), acometer (assault, attack, commit aggression, go for, sail into, undertake). (various references)

Swedish

kränka (aggrieve, derogate from, infringe, injure, outrage, wrong). (various references)

Turkish

tutmamak (conflict), tecâvüz etmek (abuse, aggress, assault, attack, break into, encroach, encroach on, entrench upon, impinge, infringe, interfere with, intrude, outrage, overstep, rape, ravish, shame, trench on, trench upon, trespass), ihlal etmek (break, infringe, invade, trespass on, trespass upon), bozmak (abash, abolish, adulterate, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck), çiğnemek (break, champ, chew, chump, contravene, crunch, infringe, masticate, outrage, override, run down, run over, squelch, stamp, swamp, tramp, trample, trample down, transgress), ırzına geçmek (force, interfere with, rape, ravish, ruin). (various references)

Ukranian 

оскверняти (contaminate, desecrate, profane, soil), зневажати (cold shoulder, невимушенІсть [f], desecrate, despise, disdain, disregard, ignore, misprise, misprize, neglect, overlook, override, scorn, scout, spit), порушувати правила. (various references)

Welsh

treisio (force, oppress, rape, ravish). (various references)

adtracta, adtractaverit, adtractent, adtrectavimus, devirginavit, laedo ledo, polluam, polluamini, polluamus, polluant, polluantur, polluat, polluatis, polluatur, polluent, polluentur, polluerat, polluere, polluerent, pollueretur, polluerint, polluerit, pollueritis, polluerunt, pollues, polluet, polluetur, pollui, polluimini, polluimus, polluisti, polluistis, polluit, polluitur, polluta, pollutae, polluti, pollutio, pollutione, pollutum, pollutus, pollutusque, praevaricabis, praevaricans, praevaricantes, praevaricantur, praevaricari, praevaricata, praevaricati, praevaricator, praevaricatorum, praevaricatricis, praevaricatrix, praevaricatus, praevaricemur, rumpo, violabant, violabo, violabunt, violando, violans, violant, violare, violarent, violaretur, violassent, violasset, violasti, violata, violaverit, violaverunt, violavit. (various references)

defouler. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "violate": violated, violater, violaters, violates. (additional references)

Words ending with "violate": inviolate. (additional references)

Words containing "violate": inviolately, inviolateness, inviolatenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Violate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: diolate, giolitti, iolate, Ivalace, Lilooet, violacea, violae, violater, violette, violit, violot, voilate, volate, voliate, volite, voltate. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: violet.

-2 letters: alive, laevo, lovat, olive, ovate, telia, teloi, toile, valet, viola, vitae, vital, voila, voile, volta, volte, volti.

-3 letters: alit, aloe, alto, evil, ilea, iota, late, lati, lave, leva, levo, lite, live, lota, loti, love, olea, oval, tael, tail, tale, tali, teal, tela, tile, toea, toil, tola, tole, vail, vale, veal, veil.

+1 letter: bloviate, dovetail, locative, violated, violater, violates, volatile.

+2 letters: antinovel, bloviated, bloviates, coevality, dovetails, elevation, inviolate, locatives, ovalities, pivotable, vectorial, violaters, violative, volatiles.

+3 letters: abortively, absolutive, adoptively, alleviator, antinovels, copulative, devotional, dovetailed, elevations, eluviation, evaluation, jovialties, lavatories, levigation, levitation, novaculite, optatively, outcaviled, outrivaled, retroviral, revelation, rotatively, tolerative, ventilator, vocalities, vocatively, volatilise, volatilize, vorticella.

+4 letters: advertorial, alleviation, alleviators, cocultivate, coevalities, colligative, combatively, copulatives, correlative, countervail, devaluation, devotionals, dovetailing, elaborative, eluviations, enteroviral, evaluations, evocatively, exfoliative, explorative, formatively, hortatively, inoculative, inventorial, inviolately, involucrate, jovialities, levigations, levitations, meliorative, nonrelative, nonvolatile, normatively, novaculites, operatively, outcavilled, outrivalled, overinflate, overliteral, oversalting, overtalking, oxidatively, revaluation, revelations, sporulative, ultraviolet, valediction, valedictory, vectorially, ventilation, ventilators, ventilatory, vexatiously, vibratoless, viceroyalty, volatilised, volatilises, volatilized, volatilizes, voluntaries, vorticellae, vorticellas.

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