violatevi‧o‧late /ˈvaɪəleɪt/ ●○○ AWL verb [transitive] 
Thirty-four protesters were arrested for violating criminal law. regimes that violate human rights► see thesaurus at disobey2to do something that makes someone feel that they have been attacked or have suffered a great loss of respect: Victims of burglaries often feel personally violated. The media regularly violates people’s privacy.3formal to break open a grave, or force your way into a holy place without showing any respect: Vandals had violated the graveyard.4literary to force a woman to have sex SYN rape—violator noun [countable]
WORD ORIGINviolate
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin past participle of violareVERB TABLE
violate
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | violate |
| he, she, it | violates | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | violated |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have violated |
| he, she, it | has violated | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had violated |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will violate |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have violated |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am violating |
| he, she, it | is violating | |
| you, we, they | are violating | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was violating |
| you, we, they | were violating | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been violating |
| he, she, it | has been violating | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been violating |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be violating |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been violating |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Borden's actions violated a court order to stay away from his ex-wife.
- Police have arrested twenty people, accused of violating a ban on demonstrations.
- Protesters argue that their arrest violated their right to free speech.
- This action violated the constitution and the Civil Rights Act.
- He was charged with violating national security laws because of his membership in the Secret Association for Independence.
- However, both the license and the right to use the Program terminate automatically if you violate any part of this Agreement.
- Like no other manner of death, homicide leaves survivors feeling profoundly violated.
- They accused the law enforcement authorities of violating their civil rights by, among other things, fabricating evidence.
THESAURUS
to not obey a person, order, rule, or law: · In the army, it is a crime to disobey a superior officer.· He had disobeyed the school rules.
to not obey a law or rule: · Anyone who breaks the law must expect to be punished.
formal to deliberately refuse to obey a rule or law, or what someone in authority tells you to do: · The police arrested the youth for defying a court order.
formal to deliberately disobey a rule or law in a very public way: · Timber companies are continuing to flout environmental laws.
formal to disobey a law, or do something that is against an agreement or principle: · Both countries have accused each other of violating the treaty.· Technically he had violated the law.
formal to be against a law, rule, or agreement, or to do something that is against a law, rule, or agreement: · The British government’s actions contravened the European Convention on Human Rights.
Longman Language Activatorto not obey a rule or law to not obey a law or rule: · Protesters disobeyed the law and blocked the city's main roads.· Troops openly disobeyed orders, refusing to use force against their own people.
to not do what a rule or law says you must do: · Students who break the rules and smoke in school will be suspended.· I do not want my sons' TV role models to be tough, cool guys, who break laws and kill people. break the law: · If you fail to buy a ticket before you get on the train, you are breaking the law.
formal to disobey or do something that is against a rule, agreement, principle etc: · This action violated the constitution and the Civil Rights Act.· Police have arrested twenty people, accused of violating a ban on demonstrations.
also ignore to pay no attention to a law, rule, or to what someone has told you to do, and behave as if it does not affect you. Disregard is more formal than ignore: · Many cyclists ignore the law and ride around at night without lights.· I tell her to come home by 10 o'clock, but she just ignores me.· Marlow sometimes disregards the law, but his aim is always justice.· By disregarding speed limits and passing red lights, we somehow got to the airport in time.
formal to break a particular written law, rule, or agreement: · The sale of untreated milk may contravene public health regulations.· If a licence holder contravenes any of these conditions, their licence will be withdrawn.
: flout a rule/law etc to deliberately break a law or a rule, especially because you think it is unnecessary or stupid: · Many bar owners flout the laws on under-age drinking.· Thousands of people are killed on our roads every year, yet a majority of us insist on flouting speed limits.
WORD SETSabet, verbaccusation, nounaccuse, verbaffray, nounarson, nounassault, nounassault and battery, nounbackhander, nounbattery, nounbigamy, nounblack market, nounblack marketeer, nounbreak-in, nounbreaking and entering, nouncaper, nouncapital, adjectivecarjacking, nouncat burglar, nouncontract, nouncosh, nouncounterfeit, adjectivecounterfeit, verbcover, nouncrack, verbcriminal, adjectivecriminal, nouncriminal law, nouncriminal record, nouncriminology, nouncrook, nounculpable, adjectiveculprit, noundefamation, noundefraud, verbdelinquency, noundelinquent, adjectivedelinquent, noundesperado, noundisorderly, adjectivedrug baron, noundrug runner, nounDUI, nounembezzle, verbexpropriate, verbextort, verbeyewitness, nounfelon, nounfelony, nounfence, nounfiddle, nounfiddle, verbfiddler, nounfilch, verbfinger, verbfire-raising, nounfirst offender, nounflash, verbflasher, nounforge, verbforger, nounforgery, nounfoul play, nounframe, verbframe-up, nounfratricide, nounfraud, nounfreebooter, noungang, noungang-bang, noungang rape, noungangster, nounGBH, noungenocide, noungetaway, noungodfather, noungrand larceny, noungrass, noungrievous bodily harm, nounheist, nounhijack, verbhijack, nounhijacking, nounhit, nounhit-and-run, adjectivehit man, nounincriminate, verbindecent assault, nounindecent exposure, nouninfanticide, nounjob, nounjoyriding, nounjuvenile delinquent, nounkidnap, verblarceny, nounlibel, nounlibel, verblibellous, adjectivelow life, nounmafioso, nounmalpractice, nounmanslaughter, nounmassacre, nounmassacre, verbmatricide, nounmisappropriate, verbmisconduct, nounmisdeed, nounmisdemeanour, nounmobster, nounmoll, nounmug, verbmugshot, nounmurder, nounmurder, verbmurderer, nounmurderess, nounmuscleman, nounnark, nounnefarious, adjectiveneighbourhood watch, nounnick, verbno-go area, nounoffence, nounoffend, verboffender, nounold lag, nounorganized crime, nounoutlaw, nounparricide, nounpatricide, nounpetty larceny, nounPhotofit, nounpiracy, nounplant, verbpoach, verbpoacher, nounpossession, nounprivateer, nounprotection, nounprowl, verbprowler, nounpublic nuisance, nounpull, verbpunk, nounpurloin, verbraid, nounram-raiding, nounrape, verbrape, nounrapist, nounravish, verbreceiver, nounreceiving, nounrecidivist, nounregicide, nounring, nounringleader, nounriotous, adjectiverob, verbrobber, nounrobbery, nounroll, verbrustler, nounscheme, nounscheme, verbshady, adjectiveshoplift, verbshoplifting, nounslander, nounsmuggle, verbsnout, nounspeeding, nounstabbing, nounstalking, nounstatutory offence, nounstatutory rape, nounsteal, verbstoolpigeon, nounsupergrass, nounsuspect, nounswag, nountheft, nounthief, nounthievish, adjectivetorch, verbtraffic, nountrafficker, nountriad, noununder-the-counter, adjectiveunderworld, nounundesirable, nounvagrancy, nounvandal, nounvandalism, nounvandalize, verbvice, nounvigilante, nounvillainy, nounviolate, verbviolation, nounwanted, adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The media regularly violates people’s privacy.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
The media regularly violates people’s privacy.· The UN accused the country's leaders of breaking international agreements.
formal (=break one)· Any companies breaching the code will be expelled from the Association.
(=do something that is against it)· Such discrimination violates the constitution.
(=do something you promised not to do)· I do not expect you to violate your oath.
formal (=stop them doing something they have a right to do)· Imprisoning the men without trial violated their rights.
(=send something to another country when this is not allowed)· Several companies broke trade sanctions by continuing to export weapons to the country.
· He is willing to break the taboo about discussing the effects of large-scale immigration.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN· S., however, and it is those businesses that violate the act.· They could violate the Wagner Act, and nothing would happen.· And the penalty for violating the Wagner Act is... what, $ 3, 000 a crack?
· Walking that way enables one to photograph the trains in action without violating the railway.· Registration and deposit are also necessary before a court can take certain actions against those who violate a copyright.· He said the management's action violated the constitutional rights of the media in broadcasting news.· Either action would violate the international agreement called the Missile Technology Control Regime.· In general, unprofessional conduct refers to any action that violates the rules or ethical code of the teaching profession.
· By contrast, the United States had assisted traitors and reactionaries and had violated the Moscow agreement of December 1945.· Republicans deny that Gingrich violated the agreement.· Bridges logically points out that this would violate their agreement.· The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality took the city to court for violating an agreement not to make any more sewer hookups.· When a national industry is harmed by imports, governments can raise tariffs without violating trade agreement.· Either action would violate the international agreement called the Missile Technology Control Regime.· He had located the original registration of his company and thought it supported his position that the city had violated the agreement.
· The state supreme court advised the governor that the law violated the First Amendment rights of teachers.· Thus such ceremonials do not violate the First Amendment unless the language used in them is unacceptable.· Because of that conclusion, the appeals court did not address whether the association's recruiting rule violated the First Amendment.· The flag nonsense violates First Amendment free speech protections.· The law was challenged soon after it passed on grounds that it violated the First Amendment free-speech rights of state employees.· Kay said the ruling violates the Fourteenth Amendment, and could affect landmark rulings on reproductive rights.· Indicted under the Espionage Act of 1917, he claimed that the act violated the First Amendment.
· A number of clauses were dropped after a parliamentary legal committee reported that sections of the bill violated the Constitution.· He went on to argue that the bill violated fiscal discipline and would have destroyed jobs and undermined small businesses.
· The 33-strong crew was arrested and the captain faced charges of violating international maritime law.
· Some lawyers believed this act violated the establishment clause.· The district court recognized that the Alabama statute violated the establishment clause as construed by the Supreme Court.· Does a state law that requires the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance violate the establishment clause?· Spending federal funds to employ chaplains for the armed forces might be said to violate the Establishment Clause.· Two of the dissenting justices further argued that the arrangement clearly violated the establishment clause.
· This violates the code, this goes against what you originally decided were your operational parameters.
· To impose fines of $ 1 million a day if the company continues to violate the settlement.· G was not required to admit that Rely was defective or that the company violated any laws.· The department said the company violated a 1995 court order the government obtained to bar the company from anticompetitive licensing practices.· For the first time, the order will put companies that violate immigration law at risk of losing their federal contracts.· In 1984 alone, the Pentagon suspended 453 other companies for violating procurement regulations.
· Estrada has been charged with bribery, corruption, violating the constitution and betraying the public trust.· Gender discrimination violates the Constitution. 41.· A number of clauses were dropped after a parliamentary legal committee reported that sections of the bill violated the Constitution.· This self-serving political maneuver by the administration jeopardizes millions of pension dollars and violates the Constitution and federal law.· Whether the state of Maryland may, without violating the constitution, tax that branch?· Or rule on whether asset sales, user fees, mandates and flashes of congressional ingenuity yet undreamed of violate the Constitution?
· The department said the company violated a 1995 court order the government obtained to bar the company from anticompetitive licensing practices.
· Some lawyers believed this act violated the establishment clause.· The district court recognized that the Alabama statute violated the establishment clause as construed by the Supreme Court.· Does a state law that requires the daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance violate the establishment clause?· Spending federal funds to employ chaplains for the armed forces might be said to violate the Establishment Clause.· Two of the dissenting justices further argued that the arrangement clearly violated the establishment clause.
· Swilley then charged the board with violating his freedom of speech.· Nobody is violating your freedom of religion.
· There is no reason to think that the laws of physics are violated in living matter.· A local Republican party of official claimed the law violated equal protection and First Amendment principles.· Attorney General William H.. Moody replied that no federal law had been violated.· Thus the Sabbath laws had not been violated and work was completed on time.· The state supreme court advised the governor that the law violated the First Amendment rights of teachers.· They accused the law enforcement authorities of violating their civil rights by, among other things, fabricating evidence.· I know of cases where the law has been violated by one jurisdiction shifting a leper into another.
· In either case we violate the maxim of brevity.
· One woman who violated an order has recently been sent to prison.· In this he was violating orders and breaking our plan of battle.· We had been taken outside earlier that morning to watch as three soldiers were shot for violating the order against killing civilians.· The department said the company violated a 1995 court order the government obtained to bar the company from anticompetitive licensing practices.· Disclosure of the material would put anyone who violated the order in contempt of court.
· The official reason was that I accepted a gift from a vendor, something which I was told violated company policy.
· Do children really treat such pairs as synonyms and thus violate the principle of Contrast?· Humane physician Benjamin Rush also thought that his presence would violate Protestant principles.· Narrowness, however, is not Gray's way, and he cheerfully violates his own editorial principles.· Gallagher understood that, whatever he did, he would violate his principles.· It could not have been completely uniform, because that would violate the uncertainty principle of quantum theory.· In the end, minimizing fails because it violates the principles of behavioral logic.· Before the recent revision of Article 92, state-financed support measures, in whatever form, violated the principle of free competition.· Nonconstitutional Regimes Almost every political system occasionally violates or ignores some principle in its constitution.
· Some one had violated the privacy of his lair.· The Supreme Court agreed with the district court that the Texas abortion statutes violated her right of privacy.· They said it also violates privacy rights by outlawing some expression within private e-mail correspondence between individuals.
· And around some schools you get a ticket for violating nonresident parking regulations and that amounts to $ 50.· Garth was found guilty of violating a lawful general regulation, indecent assault and adultery, and using indecent language.· Y., was not violating any regulation by operating without a windlass, officials said.· In 1984 alone, the Pentagon suspended 453 other companies for violating procurement regulations.
· Nor because legal institutions intend to or will ever admit to violating human rights.· The Supreme Court agreed with the district court that the Texas abortion statutes violated her right of privacy.· He said the management's action violated the constitutional rights of the media in broadcasting news.· Federal officials began to violate the civil rights laws in addition to refusing to enforce them.· The state supreme court advised the governor that the law violated the First Amendment rights of teachers.· They accused the law enforcement authorities of violating their civil rights by, among other things, fabricating evidence.· The teachers argued that this prohibition violated their rights.· The Supreme Court ruled in 1976 that mandatory limits on what candidates may spend violates free-speech rights.
· They say they simply believe that Aldrich violated the rules by not obtaining full clearance for his manuscript.· The ordinance, passed unanimously Tuesday, makes it either a misdemeanor or infraction to violate a park safety rule.· So I guess the very nature of Magoo violates that rule.· Doctors and insurance companies faced federal fines and prison time for violating the rules.· The rule she violated is a dumb rule.· In general, unprofessional conduct refers to any action that violates the rules or ethical code of the teaching profession.· He has already violated the rules.· Teachers can not be dismissed for insubordination unless they willfully and deliberately defy school authorities or violate reasonable school rules.
· Teachers can not be dismissed for insubordination unless they willfully and deliberately defy school authorities or violate reasonable school rules.· Finally, teachers can not be dismissed for failing to follow school rules that violate their constitutional rights.
· Y., consented to permanent injunctions barring them from violating securities laws.· He was charged with violating national security laws because of his membership in the Secret Association for Independence.· In addition, Tesoro said it filed a counterclaim alleging that the shareholders' group has violated securities laws.· No financial penalties were imposed, but the men were ordered not to violate securities laws in the future.
· To send a refugee to a country that he had not even heard of is to violate the spirit of the law.· But the bottom line is that Woods violated the spirit of the agreement.· But this turning inward would again violate the spirit of these schools.
· Militants had also violated humanitarian standards with summary executions, kidnappings and assaults against civilians.· Congress required this to improve air quality in cities whose air violates health standards.· The proposal would violate new state standards which regulate Delta pumping.· The air in El Paso is arguably the dirtiest in Texas, violating federal standards for ozone, carbon monoxide and particulates.· He has dumped several party members for violating his personal moral standards.
· If so, the state measure might then violate the federal law, she suggested.
· Dole was clearly trying to avoid the trap in which former President Bush found himself after violating the tax vow.
· When a national industry is harmed by imports, governments can raise tariffs without violating trade agreement.
VERB· A local Republican party of official claimed the law violated equal protection and First Amendment principles.· The principal claimed that this violated his constitutional rights.· Students who wanted to distribute an underground paper, Tour de Farce, claimed that the guidelines violated their rights.· Bowman, however, was transferred to a less desirable school; he sued, claiming that the transfer violated his rights.· Indicted under the Espionage Act of 1917, he claimed that the act violated the First Amendment.
WORD FAMILYnounviolence ≠ non-violenceviolatorviolationadjectiveviolent ≠ non-violentverbviolateadverbviolently
1to disobey or do something against an official agreement, law, principle etc: Thirty-four protesters were arrested for violating criminal law. regimes that violate human rights► see thesaurus at disobey2to do something that makes someone feel that they have been attacked or have suffered a great loss of respect: Victims of burglaries often feel personally violated. The media regularly violates people’s privacy.3formal to break open a grave, or force your way into a holy place without showing any respect: Vandals had violated the graveyard.4literary to force a woman to have sex SYN rape—violator noun [countable]- motherboard
- Mothercare
- mother country
- Mother Earth
- motherfucker
- motherfucking
- Mother Goose
- motherhood
- mothering
- Mothering Sunday
- mother-in-law
- motherland
- motherless
- motherliness
- mother lode
- motherly
- Mother Nature
- Mother of God
- mother-of-pearl
- mother's boy
- Mother's Day
- mother ship
- Mother Shipton
- Mother's Pride
- Mother Superior