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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To go beyond or over (a limit or boundary); exceed or overstep: "to make sure that her characters didn't transgress the parameters of ordinariness” ( Ron Rosenbaum).
  2. v. To act in violation of (the law, for example).
  3. v. To commit an offense by violating a law or command; sin.
  4. v. To spread over land, especially over the land along a subsiding shoreline. Used of the sea.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To pass over or beyond; go beyond.
  2. Hence To overpass, as some law or rule prescribed; break or violate; infringe.
  3. To offend against (a person); disobey; thwart; cross; vex.
  4. Synonyms Infringe upon, Encroach upon, etc. (see trespass, v. i.), pass, transcend, overstep, contravene.
  5. To offend by violating a law; sin.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
  2. v. transitive To act in violation of some law.
  3. v. intransitive To commit an offense; to sin.
  4. v. intransitive, of the sea To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. rare To pass over or beyond; to surpass.
  2. v. Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the �imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.
  3. v. obsolete To offend against; to vex.
  4. v. To offend against the law; to sin.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
  2. v. act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
  3. v. commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
  4. v. spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline

Etymologies

  1. Middle English transgressen, from Old French transgresser, from Latin trānsgredī, trānsgress-, to step across : trāns-, trans- + gradī, to go; see ghredh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “No physical image of a man stepping over a boundary is presented to our minds by the word transgress, nor in using the word comprehension do we picture to ourselves any manual act of grasping.”

    The Unseen World, and Other Essays

  • “Rather, it had to do with taking responsibility for where he did transgress, which is having an inappropriate relationship with an informant.”

    SFGate: Top News Stories

  • “Ruth Anne: You are one of my faves, as you know, but honestly, when it comes to sex and women, it truly does seem that your compassion capacity for women who, I guess the word is "transgress" for want of a better, in a particular way is oddly low.”

    The sleazy sexism that's served up...

  • “Goebel: not simply mediated views of the world, but also fantasies and imaginative extrapolations that 'transgress' given reality can be constructed and communicated.”

    Ethics in Games: Cfp

  • “Y: "And to you there came Joseph in times gone by, with Clear Signs, but ye ceased not to doubt of the (Mission) for which he had come: At length, when he died, ye said: 'No messenger will Allah send after him.' thus doth Allah leave to stray such as transgress and live in doubt," -”

    Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side

  • “May my life be laid down for the transgressions of such as transgress against Thee, for through them the breath of Thy grace and the fragrance of Thy loving-kindness are made known and diffused amongst men.”

    Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh

  • “So that it may, I confess, give temporal impunity to such as transgress upon this account, but for all that, it can never by so doing warrant the transgression itself; it may indeed indemnify the person, but cannot take away the guilt, which, resulting from the very nature of the action, is inseparable from it.”

    Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.

  • “The books were not only at the barricades, they were the barricades, behind which the students could both take shelter and push forward; could "transgress" across the police lines while the truncheons fell on the books, not the demonstrators.”

    The Guardian World News

  • “Modernity is supposed to "transgress" standards of the traditional, which is why Paul Hindemith, while rehearsing one of his dissonant orchestral compositions, said to the musicians, "No, no gentlemen-even though it sounds wrong, it's still not right.”

    The Freedom Fighter's Journal

  • “The big question everyone is asking, though, is why would someone like Tiger, whose ego certainly needs no boost, and who has a beautiful wife and lovely children, feels the need to, as he puts it, "transgress".”

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph

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synonyms (9)

Words with the same meaning

  1. vex
  1. sin
  1. offend
  1. trespass
  1. slip
  1. fault
  1. misdo
  1. violate
  1. disobey

hypernyms (5)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. go across
  1. go through
  1. pass
  1. overspread
  1. spread

same context (14)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. intrench
  2. overpass
  1. sins
  2. inadvertency
  1. endangerment
  2. disservice
  1. intrenchment
  2. misdemeanour
  1. percha
  2. bezoar
  1. poundage
  2. paraffine
  1. arroba
  2. gum arabic

rhymes (88)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bess
  2. Es
  3. Etess
  4. Fs
  5. Hess
  6. Hesse
  7. Ins
  8. Jess
  9. Les
  10. Ness
  11. S
  12. S.
  13. Tess
  14. Wes
  15. abs
  16. acquiesce
  17. address
  1. aggress
  2. assess
  3. attests
  4. bless
  5. caress
  6. ches
  7. chess
  8. coalesce
  9. compress
  10. confess
  11. contests
  12. convalesce
  13. cress
  14. depress
  15. digests
  16. digress
  17. dispossess
  1. distress
  2. dress
  3. egress
  4. ers
  5. es
  6. ess
  7. excess
  8. express
  9. fess
  10. finesse
  11. fluoresce
  12. gess
  13. guess
  14. impress
  15. ins
  16. jess
  17. kess
  1. largesse
  2. las
  3. les
  4. less
  5. mess
  6. ness
  7. nevertheless
  8. noblesse
  9. nonetheless
  10. obsess
  11. oppress
  12. pos
  13. possess
  14. press
  15. profess
  16. progress
  17. protests
  1. reassess
  2. recess
  3. redress
  4. regress
  5. reinvests
  6. repossess
  7. repress
  8. requests
  9. s
  10. s.
  11. simplesse
  12. stress
  13. success
  14. suppress
  15. tress
  16. undress
  17. unless
  1. us
  2. vs
  3. yes

reverse dictionary (25)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. trespass
  2. contravene
  3. infringe
  4. sin
  5. disobey
  1. digress
  2. transgressive
  3. transverse
  4. overgang
  5. overpass
  1. forfeit
  2. forfete
  3. transgress
  4. offend
  5. overstep
  1. overtop
  2. peccable
  3. prevaricate
  4. commandment
  5. encroach
  1. mistake
  2. outrage
  3. pass
  4. trans-
  5. violate

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