violate

From Latin violatus, past participle of violare (“treat with violence, whether bodily or mental”), from vis (“strength, power, force, violence”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪəˌleɪt/

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violate (third-person singular simple present violates, present participle violating, simple past and past participle violated)

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

   Drinking-and-driving violates the law.

   Accessing unauthorized files violates security protocol.

2. (transitive, euphemistic) To rape.
   • 1796, Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk

     That Antonia whom you violated, was your Sister! That Elvira whom you murdered, gave you birth! Tremble, abandoned Hypocrite! Inhuman Parricide! Incestuous Ravisher!

• comply
• obey

• violation
• violable
• violative

• violate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• violate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

violate

1. second-person plural present of violare
2. second-person plural imperative of violare
3. feminine plural past participle of violare

• evitalo, levatoi, olivate, oliveta, voliate

violāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of violō