VIOLATE


Meaning of VIOLATE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ vaɪəleɪt ]

( violates, violating, violated)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

If someone violates an agreement, law, or promise, they break it. ( FORMAL )

They went to prison because they violated the law...

= break

VERB : V n

• vio‧la‧tion

(violations)

To deprive the boy of his education is a violation of state law...

He was in violation of his contract.

N-VAR : usu N of n

• vio‧la‧tor

(violators)

...a government which is a known violator of human rights.

N-COUNT

2.

If you violate someone’s privacy or peace, you disturb it. ( FORMAL )

These men were violating her family’s privacy.

VERB : V n

3.

If someone violates a special place, for example a grave, they damage it or treat it with disrespect.

Detectives are still searching for those who violated the graveyard.

= desecrate

VERB : V n

• vio‧la‧tion

The violation of the graves is not the first such incident.

N-UNCOUNT : usu N of n

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