VIOLATE


Meaning of VIOLATE in English

(~s, violating, ~d)

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

1.

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

They went to prison because they ~d the law...

= break

VERB: V n

violation (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

violator (violators)

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

N-COUNT

2.

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

These men were violating her family’s privacy.

VERB: V n

3.

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

Detectives are still searching for those who ~d the graveyard.

= desecrate

VERB: V n

violation

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

N-UNCOUNT: usu N of n

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