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To break or disregard (a rule or convention).transitive
- Drinking-and-driving violates the law.
- Accessing unauthorized files violates security protocol.
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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.
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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.
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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: […]
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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, […]
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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.