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!

Related terms

• violation

Derived terms

• violable
• violative

Translations

to break or fail to act by rules

• Chinese:

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

• Czech: porušit
• Danish: overtræde, krænke
• Dutch: schenden (nl)
• 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)
• Slovene: prekršiti
• Spanish: violar (es)
• Telugu: అతిక్రమించు (te) (atikramiñcu)
• Ukrainian: пору́шувати (porúšuvaty)

to rape

• 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