Contravenes synonyms

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infringes
To transgress or exceed the limits of; violate:
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conflicts
Conflict means to clash with someone or something.
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negates
To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
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contradicts
To be contrary to; be inconsistent with:
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violates
To break (a law, rule, promise, etc.); fail to keep or observe; infringe on
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transgresses
To commit an offense by violating a law, principle, or duty.
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thwarts
To prevent the occurrence, realization, or attainment of:
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spurns
To refuse or reject with contempt or disdain; scorn
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repudiates
To reject emphatically as unfounded, untrue, or unjust:
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oversteps
To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.
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opposes
To compete with; to strive against.
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offends
(Obs.) To transgress; violate
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hinders
To make difficult to accomplish; to frustrate, act as obstacle.
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gainsays
To deny
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disregards
To treat without proper respect or attentiveness.
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denies
To refuse to believe; reject:
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defies
To defy is defined as to work against or resist something.
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breaches
Breach is defined as break or violate.
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traverses
To travel across, often under difficult conditions.
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controverts
To argue or reason against; contradict; deny; dispute
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breaks
To fail to fulfill; cancel:
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helps (antonym)
To refrain from; avoid or resist. Used with can or cannot:
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aids (antonym)
To give help or relief (to); assist
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endorses (antonym)
To give approval to; support; sanction
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concurs (antonym)
To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help towards a common object or effect.
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consents (antonym)
To give permission, approval, or assent (to something proposed or requested) in opinion
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assents (antonym)
To agree to, give approval.
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approves (antonym)
To give one's consent to; sanction; confirm
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assists (antonym)
To help.
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agrees (antonym)
To grant or concede:
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permits (antonym)
The definition of permit is to allow something.
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allows (antonym)
The definition of allow means to permit or to give permission.
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upholds (antonym)
To give moral or spiritual support or encouragement to
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affirms (related)
To say positively; declare firmly; assert to be true
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doth (related)
(--- Informal) To serve (a prison term):
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Contravenes Sentence Examples

  • They cannot disapprove of a plan unless it contravenes the provisions of some statute or by-law; but if a person builds otherwise than according to an approved plan he does so at the risk of having his work pulled down or destroyed.

  • This distinction is, however, not so important as it appears at first sight, for their connexion with the bone is only of a secondary nature, and, although it happens conveniently that in the great majority of cases the division between the bones coincides with the interspace between the third and fourth tooth of the series, still, when it does not, as in the mole, too much weight must not be given to this fact, if it contravenes other reasons for determining the homologies of the teeth.

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