Violate: alternatives and connections

To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

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A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

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To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault.

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To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.

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To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.

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To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish.

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Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.

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To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.

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The act of falling or tumbling down; fall.

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.

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A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

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To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.

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To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract.

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To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseaso…

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Old form of Since.

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To pass over or beyond; to surpass.

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To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.

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Despoliation.

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Despoliation.

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A stripping or plundering; spoliation.

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A stripping or plundering; spoliation.

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Ill behavior; evil conduct; fault.

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Ill behavior; evil conduct; fault.

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of…

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The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of…

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The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.

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The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.

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Violating, or tending to violate.

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Violating, or tending to violate.

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A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make as…

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The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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To divest of a sacred character or office; to divert from a sacred purpose; to violate the sanctity of; to profane; to put to an unworthy use; -- the…

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To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe.

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Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach.

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Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.

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To strike against; to attack; to assail.

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To rage in excess of.

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To take the goods of by force, or without right; to pillage; to spoil; to sack; to strip; to rob; as, to plunder travelers.

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Not sacred or holy; not possessing peculiar sanctity; unconsecrated; hence, relating to matters other than sacred; secular; -- opposed to sacred, rel…

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Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster.

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To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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To pass over or beyond; to surpass.

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