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What (who) is Violate - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Violations; Violate; Violating; Violation (disambiguation)
violate
(violates, violating, violated)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If someone violates an agreement, law, or promise, they break it. (FORMAL)
They went to prison because they violated the law...
= break
VERB: V n
• violation (violations)
To deprive the boy of his education is a violation of state law...
He was in violation of his contract.
N-VAR: usu N of n
• violator (violators)
...a government which is a known violator of human rights.
N-COUNT
2.
If you violate someone's privacy or peace, you disturb it. (FORMAL)
These men were violating her family's privacy.
VERB: V n
3.
If someone violates a special place, for example a grave, they damage it or treat it with disrespect.
Detectives are still searching for those who violated the graveyard.
= desecrate
VERB: V n
• violation
The violation of the graves is not the first such incident.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N of n
violate
¦ verb
1. break or fail to comply with (a rule or formal agreement).
2. treat with disrespect.
3. chiefly literary rape or sexually assault.
Derivatives
violable adjective
violation noun
violator noun
Origin
ME: from L. violat-, violare 'treat violently'.
violate
v. a.
1.
Injure, hurt.
2.
Break, infringe, transgress, invade, break through, trench upon, encroach upon, set at naught, disobey.
3.
Profane, desecrate, pollute, do violence to.
4.
Abuse, outrage, ravish, deflour, debauch, constuprate, defile, commit rape upon, pollute.
Wikipedia
Violation
Violation or violations may refer to:
- Violation (basketball), the most minor class of an illegal action in basketball
- Violation (album), a 1977 album by American hard rock band Starz
- Violation (film), a 2020 Canadian horror film
- Violations (Star Trek: The Next Generation), an episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation
Examples of use of Violate
1. "The administration‘s lawyers believe the president should be permitted to violate statutory law, to violate international treaties and even to violate the Fourth Amendment inside the U.S.
2. "If the US can violate [the nuclear rules], then we can violate them," he says.
3. Traditionalists believe that gay relationships violate Scripture.
4. What if I inadvertently violate their trademarks?
5. Airlines plane did not violate Russian airspace÷ Russian authorities Russias Ministry of Transportation has acknowledged that a Vietnam Airlines passenger plane did not violate Russian airspace.