Dictionary Entry
transgress
transgress is a 10-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To pass over or beyond; to surpass. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To pass over or beyond; to surpass.
- 2transitive verb
Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the /imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.
- 3transitive verb
To offend against; to vex.
- 4intransitive verb
To offend against the law; to sin.
- 5verb
pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
- 6verb
commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
- 7verb
act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
"offend all laws of humanity"
"violate the basic laws or human civilization"
- 8verb
spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline
"The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island"
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