violate

See also: Violâte

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪəˌleɪt/

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Verb

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).

   Antonyms: comply, obey

   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!

3. (transitive, prison slang) To cite (a person) for a parole violation.
   • 2009, Shakti Belway, Bearing Witness (page 12)

     If you don't have a job, you can't pay the money, then you get violated and have to go back to prison.

   • 2014, Juanita Díaz-Cotto, Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio (page 165)

     Estela: Well, they'd take me to jail, I'd violate, and I go to prison. And maybe I get violated for six months, eight months . . . maybe 30 days, 60 days . . . You know, whatever the parole officer recommended for me, I got.

Related terms

• violation

Derived terms

• violable
• violative

Translations

to break or fail to act by rules

• Belarusian: паруша́ць impf (parušácʹ), пару́шыць pf (parúšycʹ)
• Bulgarian: наруша́вам (bg) impf (narušávam), наруша́ pf (narušá)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 違反 (zh), 违反 (zh) (wéifǎn), 違犯 (zh), 违犯 (zh) (wéifàn), 侵害 (zh) (qīnhài)

• Czech: porušit pf
• Danish: overtræde, krænke
• Dutch: schenden (nl)
• Esperanto: malrespekti
• French: violer (fr), transgresser (fr)
• Galician: violar (gl)
• Georgian: დარღვევა (darɣveva), შებღალვა (šebɣalva)
• German: verletzen (de), brechen (de), überschreiten (de), mißachten (de), übertreten (de)
• Greek: παραβιάζω (el) (paraviázo)
• Hungarian: megsért (hu), megszeg (hu)
• Ido: violacar (io)

• Italian: violare (it)
• Japanese: 破る (ja) (yaburu), 違う (ja) (tagau), 違反する (ja) (ihan suru) (a rule); 侵す (ja) (okasu), 侵害する (ja) (shingai suru), 侵犯する (ja) (shimpan suru) (a right)
• Latin: violō
• Maori: pekehāwani (refers to a truce), hara, takahi, tāpohe, hāparu, tāpohepohe
• Polish: naruszać (pl) impf, pogwałcać impf
• Portuguese: violar (pt), transgredir (pt)
• Romanian: viola (ro), încălca (ro)
• Russian: наруша́ть (ru) impf (narušátʹ), нару́шить (ru) impf (narúšitʹ)
• Slovak: porušiť pf
• Slovene: prekršiti pf
• Spanish: violar (es)
• Telugu: అతిక్రమించు (te) (atikramiñcu)
• Ukrainian: пору́шувати impf (porúšuvaty), пору́шити pf (porúšyty)
• Vietnamese: xâm phạm (vi) (侵犯)

to rape

• Dutch: schenden (nl)
• Georgian: გაუპატიურება (gauṗaṭiureba)

• German: vergewaltigen (de), entehren (de), schänden (de)
• Maori: pā(w)hera
• Ukrainian: гвалтува́ти (hvaltuváty)

Further reading

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

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Italian

Verb

violate

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

Anagrams

• evitalo, levatoi, olivate, oliveta, voliate

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Latin

Verb

violāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of violō