violate

English

Etymology

From Latin violatus, past participle of violare (“treat with violence, whether bodily or mental”), from vis (“strength, power, force, violence”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈvaɪəˌleɪt/, SAMPA: /"vaI@%leIt/

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Verb

violate (third-person singular simple present violates, present participle violating, simple past and past participle violated)

1. To break, disregard, disagree or not act according to (rules, conventions, etc.).
2. To rape.

Derived terms

• violation
• violative

Translations

to break or fail to act by rules

Czech: porušit (cs) Dutch: schenden (nl) French: violer (fr), transgresser (fr) German: verletzen (1) Greek: παραβιάζω (el) (paraviázo) Hungarian: megsért (hu), megszeg (hu)

Italian: violare (it) Portuguese: violar (pt), transgredir (pt) Russian: нарушать (ru) (narušát') impf., нарушить (ru) (narúšit') impf. Slovene: prekršiti (sl) Spanish: violar (es)

External links

• violate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• violate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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Italian

Verb

violate

1. second-person plural present tense of violare
2. second-person plural imperative of violare
3. feminine plural past participle of violare

Anagrams

• evitalo, levatoi, olivate, oliveta, voliate

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Latin

Verb

violāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of violō