Violate is a verb that describes actions that show no respect for people, laws, property, and customs. Drivers violate the law when they fail to stop at red lights, and people violate your privacy when they eavesdrop on your personal conversations.
To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.
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destroy; "Don''t violate my garden"; "violate my privacy"
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destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
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act in disregard of laws and rules; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"
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force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night"
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violate the sacred character of a place or language; "desecrate a cemetary"; "violate the sanctity of the church"; "profane the name of God"
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fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns; "This sentence violates the rules of syntax"
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.
Violate
His wife Boadicea violated with stripes, his daughters with rape.2.
Violated vows 'Twixt the souls of friend and friend.
Oft have they violated The temple, oft the law, with foul affronts.3.
To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.
Usage Examples
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.
At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
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Other Usage ExamplesWe are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.
To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.
I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.
But do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.
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