Sekirov Dictionary

violate

/ˈvaɪəˌleɪt/

verb 3
adjective 3
forms 7

verb3

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To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
- Drinking-and-driving violates the law.
- Accessing unauthorized files violates security protocol.
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(euphemistic) To rape.
- That Antonia whom you violated, was your Sister! That Elvira whom you murdered, gave you birth! Tremble, abandoned Hypocrite! Inhuman Parricide! Incestuous Ravisher! — 1796
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(slang) To cite (a person) for a parole violation.
- If you don't have a job, you can't pay the money, then you get violated and have to go back to prison. — 2009

adjective3

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(literary, no longer used) Subject to violation.
- [I]t was declared and resolved to be an undouted ancient standing order, not to be violate, and so was entred and established upon the booke. — 1675
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(literary, no longer used) Synonym of violated.
- And this Promise had never been accomplished, unless Jesus, as the great promised Messiah, had taken off the Doom of the violate Law, […] — 1734
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(literary, no longer used) Morally impure.
- [H]e […] nigher came, and touched her throat, and with hands violate // Undid the cuirass, and the crocus gown, / And bared the breasts of polished ivory, […] — 1881

forms

violated · violating · violates · violateth · violatest · more violate · most violate

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