Thesaurus
violate
verb
Synonyms and Antonyms of VIOLATE
1
to fail to keep <you've violated the company's new rule against smoking within 30 feet of the building>
Related Words disobey, rebel; blow off, brush (off), disregard, flout, ignore, neglect, overlook, overpass, pass over, slight, tune out, wink (at); dismiss, pooh-pooh (also pooh), scorn, shrug off; defy, resist, withstand
2
to treat (a sacred place or object) shamefully or with great disrespect <the invaders violated the temple by using it to stable their horses>
Related Words deconsecrate, desacralize, desanctify; blaspheme, curse, swear; befoul, contaminate, foul, poison, pollute, soil, sully, taint; affront, defame, insult, offend, outrage; annihilate, crush, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, ravage, raze, ruin, waste, wreck; despoil, loot, pillage, plunder, raid, ransack, rob, sack, spoil, strip
3
to engage in sexual activity and especially intercourse with a person unwilling or unable to give consent <the youthful offender had been in prison barely a week when he was violated in the shower room>
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