violate.
To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
Meaning & usage
To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
Drinking-and-driving violates the law.
Accessing unauthorized files violates security protocol.
To rape.
To cite (a person) for a parole violation.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English violaten (“to defile, render impure”), from violat(e) (“defiled, desecrated”, also used as the past participle of violaten) + -en, borrowed from Latin violātus, perfect passive participle of violō (“to treat with violence (whether bodily or mental)”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Ultimately from vīs (“strength, power, force, violence”).
Subject to violation.
Synonym of violated.
Morally impure.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English violat, from Classical Latin violātus.
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