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Another word for violate

violate Synonyms

violate

v.

To transgress
outrage, disrupt, infringe, break, tamper with; see also meddle 1.
To rape
dishonor, defile, ravish, molest, debauch, attack.
To desecrate
profane, defile, despoil, lay waste.

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Another word for violate

verb

To fail to fulfill (a promise) or conform to (a regulation):
breach, break, contravene, infringe, transgress. See do
To refuse or fail to obey:
break, defy, disobey, flout, transgress. Idiom: pay no attention to. See resist
To compel (another) to participate in or submit to a sexual act:
assault, force, rape, ravish. See sex
To deprive of virginity:
defile, deflower. See sex
To spoil or mar the sanctity of:
defile, desecrate, pollute, profane. See clean, religion, sacred

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Alex wouldn't violate her privacy that way.
We gave him our assurances we'd not violate his trust though I thought Betsy's suggestion was reasonable.
Scarcely any one dreamed that individual subjects could safely be left to believe what they would, and permitted, so long as they did not violate the law of the land, freely to select and practise such religious rites as afforded them help and comfort.
If the dead man was John the presbyter - if this John had in youth just seen Jesus and the Zebedean, and in extreme old age had still seen and approved the Gospel - to attribute this Gospel to him, as is done here, would not violate the literary ethics of those times.
This measure (amended) became law on the 1st of May, and provided for the repeal of the NonIntercourse Act of 1809, authorized the president, "in case either Great Britain or France shall before the 3rd day of March next so revoke or modify her edicts as that they shall cease to violate the neutral commerce of the United States," to revive non-intercourse against the other, and prohibited British and French vessels of war from entering American waters.

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