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Another word for violate

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Verb

  1. To fail to fulfill (a promise) or conform to (a regulation)

    See also:

    do

  2. To refuse or fail to obey

    Idioms:
    See also:

    resist

  3. To compel (another) to participate in or submit to a sexual act

    See also:

    sex

  4. To deprive of virginity

    See also:

    sex

  5. To spoil or mar the sanctity of

    See also:

    sacred

    religion

    clean

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for violate

Verb

  1. To transgress

    See also:

    meddle

  2. To rape

  3. To desecrate

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Sentence Examples

  • 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.

  • To violate their sanctity was one of the greatest crimes of which a man could be guilty."

  • 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.

  • 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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