Etymology
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Borrowed from Middle French violation, from Latin violātiō (“injury, profanation”), from violō (“I treat with violence; I maltreat; I violate, defile, profane”).
Morphologically violate + -ion
Pronunciation
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violation (countable and uncountable, plural violations)
- The act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated.
- An infraction or a failure to follow a rule.
- (euphemistic) Rape; sexual activity forced on another person without their consent.
Translations
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Rape or sexual activity forced on another person without their consent
Synonyms
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See breach.
Antonyms
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Derived terms
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Related terms
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Translations
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act or instance of violating
- Arabic: اِنْتِهَاك m (intihāk)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: pozma, pozulma, pozuntu
- Belarusian: парушэнне n (parušennje)
- Bulgarian: наруше́ние (bg) n (narušénie)
- Catalan: vulneració f, violació (ca) f
- Cebuano: paglapas, paglipas
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 違規/违规 (zh) (wéiguī)
- Czech: porušení n
- Danish: krænkning c
- Dutch: overtreding (nl) f, schending (nl) f
- Finnish: loukkaus (fi), rikkomus (fi)
- French: infraction (fr) f
- Galician: vulneración (gl) f, violación (gl) f
- Georgian: დარღვევა (darɣveva), შელახვა (šelaxva)
- German: Verletzung (de) f
- Greek: παραβίαση (el) f (paravíasi), καταστρατήγηση (el) f (katastratígisi), παράβαση (el) f (parávasi)
- Hebrew: עבירה (he) f (`averah)
- Hungarian: megsértés (hu), megszegés (hu), szabálysértés (hu)
- Ido: violaco (io)
- Italian: violazione (it) f
- Japanese: 違反 (ja) (いはん, ihan)
- Korean: 위반(違反) (ko) (wiban), (rights) 침해(侵害) (ko) (chimhae); 유린(蹂躪) (ko) (yurin), 유린(蹂躙) (ko) (yurin), 유린(蹂蹸) (ko) (yurin)
- Macedonian: нарушување n (narušuvanje)
- Malayalam: ലംഘനം (ml) (laṅghanaṁ)
- Manx: aggair m
- Maori: takahanga, hāpiro
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: overtredelse m
- Polish: naruszenie (pl) n, pogwałcenie (pl) n
- Portuguese: violação (pt) f
- Russian: наруше́ние (ru) n (narušénije), несоблюде́ние (ru) n (nesobljudénije)
- Spanish: violación (es) f, vulneración (es) f
- Swahili: ukiukwaji
- Swedish: kränkning (sv)
- Tagalog: paglabag, pagsuway
- Telugu: ఉల్లంఘన (te) (ullaṅghana), అతిక్రమణ (te) (atikramaṇa)
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
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