violate

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  1. transitive verb To break or disregard (a law or promise, for example).
  2. transitive verb To assault (a person) sexually.
  3. transitive verb To do harm to (property or qualities considered sacred); desecrate or defile.
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  • Comments that are abusive, offensive, contain profane material or violate the terms of service for this blog's host provider will be removed and the author (s) banned from future comments. —  The Seventh Sense
  • Readers whose comments violate the terms of use may have their comments removed or all of their content blocked from viewing by other users without notification. —  Crain's New York Business - Breaking News Feeds
  • You may not violate, plagiarize, or infringe on the rights of third parties, including copyright, trademark, trade secret, privacy, personal, publicity, moral or proprietary rights.
  • As an IT industry analyst, the author occasionally agrees to nondisclosure agreements from Microsoft or other companies, and he will not violate the terms of such agreements on this blog. —  CNET News.com
  • Its literal translation would be "to do violence to" and almost "violate". —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English violaten, from Latin violāre, violāt-, from vīs, vi-, force; see weiə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin violatus, past participle of violare (later Italian violare = Spanish Portuguese violar = French violer), treat with violence, whether bodily or mental, from vis, strength, power, force, violence: see vim, violent.
 

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/ˈvaɪəleɪt/
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