Violate

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  • transitive verb. To disregard or act in a manner that does not conform to (a law or promise, for example).
  • transitive verb. To assault (a person) sexually.
  • transitive verb. To do harm to (property or qualities considered sacred); desecrate or defile.
  • transitive verb. To disturb rudely or improperly; interrupt.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To treat roughly or injuriously; handle so as to harm or hurt; do violence to; outrage.
  • To break in upon; interrupt; disturb.
  • To desecrate; dishonor; treat with irreverence; profane, or meddle with profanely.
  • To infringe; transgress, as a contract, law, promise, or the like, either by a positive act contrary to the promise, etc., or by neglect or non-fulfilment: as, to violate confidence.
  • To ravish; deflower by force; commit rape on.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.
  • transitive verb. 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.
  • transitive verb. To disturb; to interrupt.
  • transitive verb. To commit rape on; to ravish; to outrage.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To break, disregard, disagree or not act according to (rules, conventions, etc.).
  • verb. To rape.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
  • verb. destroy
  • verb. fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
  • verb. force (someone) to have sex against their will
  • verb. destroy and strip of its possession
  • verb. violate the sacred character of a place or language
  • Word Usage
    "Instead, the only violation gays routinely violate is DADT."
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