violate
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈvaɪəˌleɪt/
violate (violates, present participle violating; 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.
- (transitive, euphemistic) To rape.
- (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.
- 2009, Shakti Belway, Bearing Witness (page 12)
- French: violer, transgresser
- German: verletzen, brechen, überschreiten, mißachten, übertreten
- Italian: violare
- Portuguese: violar, transgredir
- Russian: наруша́ть
- Spanish: violar
- German: vergewaltigen, entehren, schänden
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