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Violate

//ˈvaɪəˌleɪt// adj, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Subject to violation. archaic, poetic

    "[I]t was declared and resolved to be an undouted ancient standing order, not to be violate, and so was entred and established upon the booke."

  2. 2
    Synonym of violated. archaic, poetic

    "My Fathers blood, Agneſias languiſhing griefs, my violate marriage, and this late contempt, raiſed ſeveral paſſions, which like ſo many torrents, overthrew all obſtacles that withſtood the rapacity of their courſe, […]"

  3. 3
    Morally impure. archaic, obsolete, poetic

    "The bruite of which her rare perfections ran, […] laſtly reſted in the princes eares, / Who […] / Inuades my caſtell when I was at reſt, / And bare my daughter thence with violate hands, / Vnto his pallace where ſhe doth remaine, […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To break or disregard (a rule or convention). transitive

    "Drinking-and-driving violates the law."

  2. 2
    destroy wordnet
  3. 3
    To rape. transitive

    "That Antonia whom you violated, was your Sister! That Elvira whom you murdered, gave you birth! Tremble, abandoned Hypocrite! Inhuman Parricide! Incestuous Ravisher!"

  4. 4
    destroy and strip of its possession wordnet
  5. 5
    To cite (a person) for a parole violation. slang, transitive

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

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  1. 6
    act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises wordnet
  2. 7
    force (someone) to have sex against their will wordnet
  3. 8
    violate the sacred character of a place or language wordnet
  4. 9
    fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From 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”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English violat, from Classical Latin violātus.

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