VIOLATE Synonyms

• cause to feel resentment or indignation

• act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

• strike with disgust or revulsion

• hurt the feelings of

• act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

• spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline

• commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law

• pass beyond (limits or boundaries)

• resist or confront with resistance

• elude, especially in a baffling way

• challenge

• refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient

• lack of attention and due care

• willful lack of care and attention

• refuse to acknowledge

• bar from attention or consideration

• give little or no attention to

• go against, as of rules and laws

• advance beyond the usual limit

• a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages

• entry to another's property without right or permission

• enter unlawfully on someone's property

• make excessive use of

• break the law

• commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law

• pass beyond (limits or boundaries)

• some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity

• an unexpected piece of good luck

• (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

• a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

• a pause from doing something (as work)

• the act of breaking something

• a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

• breaking of hard tissue such as bone

• the occurrence of breaking

• an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)

• the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool

• (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving

• an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity

• a sudden dash

• any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare

• an escape from jail

• terminate or end

• become separated into pieces or fragments

• render inoperable or ineffective

• ruin completely

• destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments

• act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

• move away or escape suddenly

• scatter or part

• force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up

• prevent completion

• enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act

• make submissive, obedient, or useful

• fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns

• surpass in excellence

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

• come into being

• stop operating or functioning

• interrupt a continued activity

• make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing

• curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves

• lessen in force or effect

• be broken in

• come to an end

• vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity

• cause to give up a habit

• give up

• come forth or begin from a state of latency

• happen or take place

• cause the failure or ruin of

• invalidate by judicial action

• discontinue an association or relation; go different ways

• assign to a lower position; reduce in rank

• reduce to bankruptcy

• change directions suddenly

• emerge from the surface of a body of water

• break down, literally or metaphorically

• do a break dance

• exchange for smaller units of money

• destroy the completeness of a set of related items

• make the opening shot that scatters the balls

• separate from a clinch, in boxing

• go to pieces

• break a piece from a whole

• become punctured or penetrated

• pierce or penetrate

• be released or become known; of news

• cease an action temporarily

• interrupt the flow of current in

• undergo breaking

• find a flaw in

• find the solution or key to

• change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another

• happen

• become fractured; break or crack on the surface only

• crack; of the male voice in puberty

• fall sharply

• fracture a bone of

• diminish or discontinue abruptly

• weaken or destroy in spirit or body

• a feeling of righteous anger

• a wantonly cruel act

• a disgraceful event

• the act of scandalizing

• strike with disgust or revulsion

• violate the sacred character of a place or language

• force (someone) to have sex against their will

• fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns

• act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

• resist

• violate the sacred character of a place or language

• remove the consecration from a person or an object

• steal goods; take as spoils

• destroy and strip of its possession

• a state of shame or disgrace

• lacking honor or integrity

• bring shame or dishonor upon

• force (someone) to have sex against their will

• refuse to accept

• a state of shame or disgrace

• lacking honor or integrity

• bring shame or dishonor upon

• force (someone) to have sex against their will

• refuse to accept

• act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

• goods or money obtained illegally

• take illegally; of intellectual property

• plunder (a town) after capture

• steal goods; take as spoils

• destroy and strip of its possession

• not concerned with or devoted to religion

• characterized by profanity or cursing

• not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled

• grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred

• corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality

• violate the sacred character of a place or language

• force (someone) to have sex against their will

• hold spellbound

• (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war)

• the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it

• the act of stripping and taking by force

• make a mess of, destroy or ruin

• become unfit for consumption or use

• alter from the original

• treat with excessive indulgence

• hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

• have a strong desire or urge to do something

• destroy and strip of its possession

• make imperfect