To violate, do violence to; to fail to observe or keep; to transgress. (The opposite of to keep sacred… an oath, promise, pledge, vow, one's…

To break (a commandment, promise, etc.).

To be or prove false to. To break, violate (one's faith, word, etc.). Const. dative of person.

To forsake, cease to regard (a law, etc.).

To break (faith); to violate (a peace). Obsolete.

intransitive. To give up or discontinue (a practice or habit); to withdraw from or renege on (a promise, undertaking, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. To refuse to continue to recognize or abide by (a law, authority, etc.); to repudiate.

transitive. To fail to keep or observe (an oath or promise, one's faith, etc.). Now somewhat archaic.

transitive. To violate (a promise, an obligation).

transitive. To make default in; to break. Obsolete.

transitive. To prove false to, fail to keep; to break, violate (one's faith, word, etc.). Obsolete.

figurative. To act or speak in opposition to; to cross, thwart; in Law = traverse, v. 1. Obsolete.

To commit a breach or infraction of (a law, obligation, right, etc.); to violate or break (an oath, pledge, treaty, etc.); to transgress, contravene.

figurative. To break (a vow, promise, etc.). Now dialect. to crack tryst (Scottish): to break or prove false to an engagement.

intransitive. To recede.

transitive. To withdraw or retract (a promise, vow, undertaking, etc.); to go back on (one's word). Now rare.

transitive. To transgress. Obsolete.

figurative. To transgress the strict requirements of (one's conscience), to violate the spirit of (one's oath).

figurative. To break or violate (a law, a principle). Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To evade (an oath, a promise) by equivocation.

= false, v. 4a.

transitive. To transgress against, violate (one's faith or oath). rare.

To burst through restraints of, transgress.

transitive. To break; to violate, infringe. Chiefly U.S.

To put aside, refuse to defer to (another's scruples). rare.

In extended use. intransitive. To fail to honour a debt or obligation; to renege on an agreement, obligation, etc.