violate

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To break or disregard (a law or promise, for example).
2. v. To assault (a person) sexually.
3. v. To do harm to (property or qualities considered sacred); desecrate or defile.
4. v. To disturb rudely or improperly; interrupt: violated our privacy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To treat roughly or injuriously; handle so as to harm or hurt; do violence to; outrage.
2. To break in upon; interrupt; disturb.
3. To desecrate; dishonor; treat with irreverence; profane, or meddle with profanely.
4. To infringe; transgress, as a contract, law, promise, or the like, either by a positive act contrary to the promise, etc., or by neglect or non-fulfilment: as, to violate confidence.
5. To ravish; deflower by force; commit rape on.

Wiktionary

1. v. To break, disregard, disagree or not act according to (rules, conventions, etc.).
2. v. To rape.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To treat in a violent manner; to abuse.
2. v. To do violence to, as to anything that should be held sacred or respected; to profane; to desecrate; to break forcibly; to trench upon; to infringe.
3. v. To disturb; to interrupt.
4. v. To commit rape on; to ravish; to outrage.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
2. v. destroy.
3. v. fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
4. v. force (someone) to have sex against their will
5. v. destroy and strip of its possession
6. v. violate the sacred character of a place or language