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

1. transitive verb. To pass over or beyond; to surpass.
2. transitive verb. Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the /imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.
3. transitive verb. To offend against; to vex.
4. intransitive verb. To offend against the law; to sin.
5. verb. pass beyond (limits or boundaries)

   Synonyms: overstep, trespass

6. verb. commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law

   Synonyms: sin, trespass

7. verb. act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

   "offend all laws of humanity"

   "violate the basic laws or human civilization"

   Synonyms: breach, break, infract, offend, violate

8. verb. spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline

   "The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island"

Synonyms

overstep, trespass, sin, breach, break, infract, offend, violate

Common word forms

transgressed, transgresses, transgressing

Words from these letters

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