Dictionary Entry
violate
violate is a 7-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To treat in a violent manner; to abuse. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.
- 2transitive verb
To do violence to, as to anything that should be held sacred or respected; to profane; to desecrate; to break forcibly; to trench upon; to infringe.
- 3transitive verb
To disturb; to interrupt.
- 4transitive verb
To commit rape on; to ravish; to outrage.
- 5verb
destroy
"Don't violate my garden"
"violate my privacy"
- 6verb
destroy and strip of its possession
"The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
- 7verb
act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
"offend all laws of humanity"
"violate the basic laws or human civilization"
- 8verb
force (someone) to have sex against their will
"The woman was raped on her way home at night"
- 9verb
violate the sacred character of a place or language
"desecrate a cemetery"
"violate the sanctity of the church"
- 10verb
fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
"This sentence violates the rules of syntax"
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