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