Violate
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English
Verb
Violate (third-person singular simple present Violates, present participle violating, simple past and past participle violated)
Adverbs for Violate
flagrantly; expressly; palpably; basely;
Verbs for Violate
apprehend—; check—; denounce—; disclose—; exile—; fine—; jail—; "nab"—; pounce upon—; punish—; seize—; trail—; — abuses; —baffles; —breaks; —despoils; — disregards; —eludes; —encroaches; — evades; —infringes; —mulcts; —profanes; ——ravishes.
Thesaurus
abuse, adulterate, afflict, aggrieve, alloy, assault, assault sexually, attack, barbarize, batter, befoul, betray, bewitch, blight, breach, breach the law, break, break the law, brutalize, burn, butcher, canker, care naught for, carry on, cheapen, circumvent the law, coarsen, commit a crime, condemn, confound, contaminate, contravene, convert, corrupt, crucify, curse, damage, debase, debauch, deceive, defalcate, defile, deflorate, deflower, defy, degenerate, degrade, denature, deprave, desecrate, despoil, destroy, devalue, devirginate, disadvantage, dishonor, disobey, disobey the law, disregard, disregard the law, disserve, distort, distress, divert, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do violence to, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, embezzle, envenom, err, flout, force, foul, get into trouble, go counter to, go on, hammer, harass, harm, hex, hurt, ignore, impair, infect, infract, infringe, injure, jinx, lay waste, lead astray, loot, maladminister, maltreat, maul, menace, misapply, misappropriate, misemploy, mishandle, mislead, mismanage, mistreat, misuse, molest, mug, not conform, not heed, not keep, not listen, not mind, not observe, offend, outrage, overpass, peculate, persecute, pervert, pilfer, pillage, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, possess sexually, prejudice, profane, prostitute, rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, ravage, rave, ravish, refuse to cooperate, riot, roar, ruin, sack, savage, scathe, scoff at, seduce, set at defiance, set at naught, set naught by, sin, slaughter, soil, sow chaos, spoil, storm, sully, taint, take, tear, tear around, terrorize, threaten, torment, torture, trample, trample on, trample underfoot, trample upon, transgress, trespass, twist, ulcerate, vandalize, violate the law, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, wound, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrong
Etymology
< Latin violatus, past participle of violare (“treat with violence, whether bodily or mental”) < vis (“strength, power, force, violence”)
Pronunciation
Derived terms
Translations
Italian
Verb
violate
- second-person plural present tense of violare
- second-person plural imperative of violare
- feminine plural past participle of violare
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
violāte
- first-person plural present active imperative of violō
