violate
See also: Violâte
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English violaten (“to defile, render impure”), from violat(e) (“defiled, desecrated”, also used as the past participle of violaten) + -en, borrowed from Latin violātus, perfect passive participle of violō (“to treat with violence (whether bodily or mental)”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Ultimately from vīs (“strength, power, force, violence”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editviolate (third-person singular simple present violates, present participle violating, simple past and past participle violated)
- (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
- Antonyms: comply, obey
- Drinking-and-driving violates the law.
- Accessing unauthorized files violates security protocol.
- 2024 October 9, Hadas Gold, Liam Reilly and Brian Stelter, “Shari Redstone says CBS leaders made ‘bad mistake’ with handling of Ta-Nehisi Coates interview fallout”, in CNN[1]:
- In stark opposition to what CBS editorial leadership told staff on Monday, Redstone said that she did not believe Dokoupil had violated the network’s editorial standards when he grilled Coates over the contents of his new book.
- (transitive) 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!
- (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.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editto break or fail to act by rules
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to rape
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Further reading
edit- “violate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “violate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Italian
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editviolate
- inflection of violare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editviolate f pl
References
edit- ^ violare in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Anagrams
editLatin
editVerb
editviolāte
Spanish
editVerb
editviolate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of violar combined with te
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