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violate

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verb/ˈvaɪəˌleɪt/
  1. 1

    To break or disregard (a rule or convention).transitive

    • Drinking-and-driving violates the law.
    • Accessing unauthorized files violates security protocol.
  2. 2

    To rape.transitive

    • 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.slangtransitive

    • 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.
adj/ˈvaɪəˌleɪt/
  1. 1

    Subject to violation.archaicpoetic

    • [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: […]
  2. 2

    Synonym of violated.archaicpoetic

    • 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, […]
  3. 3

    Morally impure.archaicobsoletepoetic

    • 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.

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