violate

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To break or disregard (a rule or convention).

   • Drinking-and-driving violates the law.
   • Accessing unauthorized files violates security protocol.
   • In stark opposition to what CBS editorial leadership told staff on Monday, Redstone said that she did not believe Dokoupil had violated the network’s editorial standards when he grilled Coates over the contents of his new book.
2. 2

   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!
   • Bulgarian soldiers in the meantime entered Turkish houses, violated the women and girls and stole everything they could lay their hands on.
3. 3

   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.
   • Estela: Well, they'd take me to jail, I'd violate, and I go to prison. And maybe I get violated for six months, eight months . . . maybe 30 days, 60 days . . . You know, whatever the parole officer recommended for me, I got.
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   1. 4

      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.
      • And now, O maids, behold our sanctuary / Is violate, our laws broken: […]
      • Ev’n as the pale hag’s muffled muttering / Draws down the moon from heaven, the ſpell of Fate / Draws me from thee. Our bonds in burſting ſtring, / And all are violate!
   2. 5

      Synonym of violated.

      • My Fathers blood, Agneſias languiſhing griefs, my violate marriage, and this late contempt, raiſed ſeveral paſſions, which like ſo many torrents, overthrew all obſtacles that withſtood the rapacity of their courſe, […]
      • And this Promiſe had never been accompliſhed, unleſs Jeſus, as the great promiſed Meſſiah, had taken off the Doom of the violate Law, […]
      • By him the violate law spoke out / Its thunders; […]
   3. 6

      Morally impure.

      • The bruite of which her rare perfections ran, […] laſtly reſted in the princes eares, / Who […] / Inuades my caſtell when I was at reſt, / And bare my daughter thence with violate hands, / Vnto his pallace where ſhe doth remaine, […]
      • Naples is glad because her king has fallen / By my hand first; / Take home the lesson to thee, faithless warden, / The foremost and the worst, / Who makest of this lovely land, God’s garden, / A nation violate, corrupt, accurst.
      • [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, […]

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