Meaning of "violate" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD VIOLATE

From Latin violāre to do violence to, from vīs strength.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF VIOLATE

violate  [ˈvaɪəˌleɪt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VIOLATE

Violate is a verb and can also act as an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb violate in English.

WHAT DOES VIOLATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Violation

Violation or violations may refer to: ▪ Violation, a 1977 album by American hard rock band Starz ▪ Violation, the most minor class of an illegal action in basketball ▪ Violations, an episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation ▪ Bipolar violation, when two pulses of the same polarity occur without an intervening pulse of the opposite polarity in telecommunications ▪ Storage violation, when a task modifies or attempts to modify computer storage that it does not own ▪ Desecration, the act of depriving something of its sacred character...

Definition of violate in the English dictionary

The first definition of violate in the dictionary is to break, disregard, or infringe. Other definition of violate is to rape or otherwise sexually assault. Violate is also to disturb rudely or improperly; break in upon.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO VIOLATE

PRESENT

Present

I violate

you violate

he/she/it violates

we violate

you violate

they violate

Present continuous

I am violating

you are violating

he/she/it is violating

we are violating

you are violating

they are violating

Present perfect

I have violated

you have violated

he/she/it has violated

we have violated

you have violated

they have violated

Present perfect continuous

I have been violating

you have been violating

he/she/it has been violating

we have been violating

you have been violating

they have been violating

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I violated

you violated

he/she/it violated

we violated

you violated

they violated

Past continuous

I was violating

you were violating

he/she/it was violating

we were violating

you were violating

they were violating

Past perfect

I had violated

you had violated

he/she/it had violated

we had violated

you had violated

they had violated

Past perfect continuous

I had been violating

you had been violating

he/she/it had been violating

we had been violating

you had been violating

they had been violating

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will violate

you will violate

he/she/it will violate

we will violate

you will violate

they will violate

Future continuous

I will be violating

you will be violating

he/she/it will be violating

we will be violating

you will be violating

they will be violating

Future perfect

I will have violated

you will have violated

he/she/it will have violated

we will have violated

you will have violated

they will have violated

Future perfect continuous

I will have been violating

you will have been violating

he/she/it will have been violating

we will have been violating

you will have been violating

they will have been violating

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would violate

you would violate

he/she/it would violate

we would violate

you would violate

they would violate

Conditional continuous

I would be violating

you would be violating

he/she/it would be violating

we would be violating

you would be violating

they would be violating

Conditional perfect

I would have violate

you would have violate

he/she/it would have violate

we would have violate

you would have violate

they would have violate

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been violating

you would have been violating

he/she/it would have been violating

we would have been violating

you would have been violating

they would have been violating

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you violate
we let´s violate
you violate

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to violate

Past participle

violated

Present Participle

violating

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «VIOLATE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «violate» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of violate

abuse · assault · befoul · break · contravene · deface · defile · defy · desecrate · dishonour · disobey · disregard · disrupt · disturb · flout · fly in the face of · ignore · infract · infringe · invade · molest · outrage · overstep · pollute · profane · rape · ravish · shatter · take no notice of · transgress · upset · vandalize

TRANSLATION OF VIOLATE

Find out the translation of violate to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of violate from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «violate» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 违反
• Translator English - Spanish: violar
• English: violate
• Translator English - Hindi: उल्लंघन
• Translator English - Arabic: تنتهك
• Translator English - Russian: нарушают
• Translator English - Portuguese: violar
• Translator English - Bengali: লঙ্ঘন করা
• Translator English - French: violer
• Translator English - Malay: Melanggar
• Translator English - German: verletzen
• Translator English - Japanese: 破る
• Translator English - Korean: 위반하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Nglanggar
• Translator English - Vietnamese: vi phạm
• Translator English - Tamil: மீறும்
• Translator English - Marathi: उल्लंघन
• Translator English - Turkish: ihlal etmek
• Translator English - Italian: violare
• Translator English - Polish: naruszać
• Translator English - Ukrainian: порушують
• Translator English - Romanian: încălca
• Translator English - Greek: παραβιάζουν
• Translator English - Afrikaans: oortree
• Translator English - Swedish: kränka
• Translator English - Norwegian: krenke

10 QUOTES WITH «VIOLATE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word violate.

1

Julian Assange

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

2

Spencer Bachus

By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families.

3

Roger Nash Baldwin

I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred.

4

Melody Beattie

Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.

5

John O. Brennan

We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.

6

Luther Burbank

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

7

Joseph Butler

Man may act according to that principle or inclination which for the present happens to be strongest, and yet act in a way disproportionate to, and violate his real proper nature.

8

Lydia M. Child

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

9

Ramsey Clark

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

10

Larry David

Most people are completely unaware of their breath. They violate your space, they have no idea that they have halitosis.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VIOLATE»

Discover the use of violate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to violate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Video News Releases: Unattributed Prepackaged News Stories ...

The prepackaged news stories are distributed to local TV news stations & are designed to resemble actual news stories.

Susan A. Poling, 2008

The Paradigm Conspiracy: Why Our Social Systems Violate ...

The book is a powerful wake-up call." --Willis Harman, former president, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Sausalito, California "This book is a must-read for anyone who values family and freedom.

Denise Breton, Christopher Largent, 1998

Morality: Its Nature and Justification

persons would publicly allow the government to violate the fourth and fifth moral rules in order to follow utilitarian ideals. Governments have, in fact, generally been thought justified in depriving people of freedom by taxation in order to promote ...

Bernard Gert, 1998

An Approach to Rights: Studies in the Philosophy of Law and ...

Finally, a violent action may not violate a legal right because the action falls within some exception to the duty imposed by that right. A person's legal right to life imposes a duty on others not to kill one, and a person's common-law right to ...

Carl Wellman, 1997

Reports of Cases in Prize, Argued and Determined in the ...

Vessel nod cargo condemned for an attempt to violate the hlockade. Id. 68. Vessel and cargo condemned for an attempt to violate the blockade. The Tabal Cain. 241). 69. Vessel and cargo condemned as enemy property. The Reindeer, 241.

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The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House

It's amateur hour at the White House. So says "New York Times" bestselling author Edward Klein in his new political expose "The Amateur.

Edward Klein, 2012

22 IRREFUTABLE LAWS OF ADVERTISING AND WHEN TO VIOLATE THEM

About The Book: This is an authoritative and unique guide to the universal principles that underlie great advertising-the kind that's proven to be dramatically more successful around the world.

Michael Newman, 2006

Liberalism and Prostitution

Assuming, then, that this is sometimes the case, not all forms of paternalism violate our rights. If, however, a policy violates my principle of antipaternalism, then I believe that this policy is not justifiable in this way. When a liberty is important, ...

Peter de Marneffe Professor of Philosophy Arizona State University, 2009

Fashioning the More Ethical Representative: The Impact of ...

Although unethical behavior is not normally seen as a career path, the factors affecting the decision to violate the standards may fit similar categories as those affecting other career-related decisions. Members with the opportunity to violate ...

Rebekah Herrick, 2003

Rights, Restitution, and Risk: Essays in Moral Theory

You may violate a man's right to privacy by looking at him or listening to him: there is no such thing as violating a man's right to privacy by simply knowing something about him. Where our rights in this area do lie is, I think, here: we have a right ...

Judith Jarvis Thomson, William Parent, 1986

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VIOLATE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term violate is used in the context of the following news items.

PDC: Inslee campaign didn't violate lobbying laws

The state Public Disclosure Commission says Gov. Jay Inslee's re-election committee did not violate state lobbying laws when it sent emails to supporters on ... «The Seattle Times, Jul 15»

Jury says officers didn't violate man's civil rights

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — A jury has found that two Long Island police officers didn't violate the civil rights of an unarmed man who died after he was shot ... «SFGate, Jul 15»

Judge: Casino workers' union didn't violate bankruptcy law

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - A judge says Atlantic City's main casino workers' union didn't violate federal bankruptcy law by discouraging Trump Taj Mahal's ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»

Justin Welby: To take away religious freedom is 'to violate the core of …

The Most Rev Justin Welby also said that to take away a person's freedom to believe or not to believe is "to violate the core of their humanity". «ChristianToday, Jul 15»

Maine inn's essay contest did not violate law, state police say

A Maine innkeeper broke no laws when she offered to give away her historic hotel to the winner of an essay contest that charged a $125 entry fee, state police ... «Reuters, Jun 15»

Investigation: Bothell mayor did not violate ethics rules

BOTHELL, Wash. (AP) - Bothell' s mayor did not violate ethics rules when he bid to purchase the Wayne Golf Course back nine for his private company, ... «Washington Times, May 15»

Tobacco companies say FDA rules violate their free speech rights

They violate the First Amendment because they pre-emptively restrict free speech and exceed the scope of the Tobacco Control Act, the companies claim. «WQAD.com, Apr 15»

Religion News: Court rules school's yoga classes don't violate …

A California court ruled earlier this month that a San Diego-area school district's yoga lessons do not violate religious freedom. A family had objected to the gym ... «Mail Tribune, Apr 15»

University of Maryland officials say 'hateful' e-mail did not violate policy

University of Maryland officials have concluded that a vulgar e-mail a student sent to members of his fraternity last year was “hateful and reprehensible,” but did ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»

All-boys high school plan for Southeast D.C. doesn't violate Title IX …

WASHINGTON (AP) - The District of Columbia's attorney general says a new program designed to help minority boys in city schools doesn't violate federal civil ... «WJLA, Mar 15»