Violate
['vaɪəleɪt] or ['vaɪəlet]
Definition
(verb.) destroy; 'Don't violate my garden'; 'violate my privacy'.
(verb.) fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns; 'This sentence violates the rules of syntax'.
Edited by Gillian--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.
(v. t.) 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. t.) To disturb; to interrupt.
(v. t.) To commit rape on; to ravish; to outrage.
Typist: Marvin
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Break, Infringe, transgress, invade, break through, trench upon, encroach upon, set at nought.[2]. Profane, desecrate, pollute, do violence to.[3]. Abuse, outrage, ravish, deflour, debauch, constuprate, defile, commit rape upon.
Edited by Blair
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Ravish, injure, abuse, disturb, hurt, rape, outrage, debauch, break, infringe,profane, transgress, disobey
ANT:Respect, foster, observe, regard, preserve, cherish, protect, obey
Inputed by Hahn
Definition
v.t. to injure: to abuse: to ravish: to profane: to break forcibly: to transgress.—adj. Vī′olable that may be violated injured or broken.—adv. Vi′olably.—ns. Vīolā′tion the act of violating or injuring: infringement: non-observance: profanation: rape; Vī′olātor.
Editor: Robert
Examples
- I violate no oath (you shall hear why presently) in making my confidence complete by telling you the name of the society to which I belong. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- They may violate human nature as the taboo does. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But I _would_ not look; I had fixed my resolve, but I would not violate my nature. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Capitalists did not violate the public conscience of America; they expressed it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And in so doing they will do what is best, and will not violate, but preserve the natural relation of the sexes. Plato. The Republic.
- To violate this combination is everywhere a most unpopular action, and a sort of reproach to a master among his neighbours and equals. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Yet I suppose that all of them violate the law. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The terms of the truce had been violated before, when teams had been sent into the city to bring out supplies for the army. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It has never been violated, on their part or ours, till now. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- No principle of either would be violated by my marriage with Mr. Darcy. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But now she was not to be violated and ruined. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He looked rather comical, blinking and trying to be in the scene, when emotionally he was violated by his exposure to a crowd. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Think you, amidst the shrieks of violated innocence and helpless infancy, I did not feel in every nerve the cry of a fellow being? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She half felt as if, in opening it, she had violated a confidence. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- We talked of change and active pursuits, but still remained at Windsor, incapable of violating the charm that attached us to our secluded life. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But what reformers have to learn is that men don't gamble just for the sake of violating the law. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- No routine has ever done that in spite of the conservative patter about human nature; mechanical politics has usually begun by ignoring and ended by violating the nature of men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Only by violating the very spirit of the constitution have we been able to preserve the letter of it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For it is a rough estimate of an important part of the community's sentiment, and no statecraft can succeed that violates it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He who violates it cannot be allowed to work in our city, and to corrupt the taste of our citizens. Plato. The Republic.
Typed by Laverne