Violate
verb
To break a rule, law or agreement.
He violated the contract by not delivering the goods on time.
Often appears as...
- violate the law
- violate a contract
verb
To disrespect or not care for someone's rights, feelings or personal space.
He was accused of violating her privacy by reading her personal emails.
Often appears as...
- violate someone's privacy
- violate someone's rights
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Disapproving
verb
To sexually assault or abuse someone.
She was violated by a man she thought was her friend.
Often appears as...
- violate someone
- sexually violate
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To break a rule, law or agreement.
He violated the contract by not delivering the goods on time.
Often appears as...
- violate the law
- violate a contract
verb
To disrespect or not care for someone's rights, feelings or personal space.
He was accused of violating her privacy by reading her personal emails.
Often appears as...
- violate someone's privacy
- violate someone's rights
Usage tips
Disapproving
verb
To sexually assault or abuse someone.
She was violated by a man she thought was her friend.
Often appears as...
- violate someone
- sexually violate
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Severity
Using 'violate' in a legal context implies serious consequences, more than just making a mistake.
The company violated environmental laws and faced substantial fines.
Pro Tip 2/3Intentional Action
'Violate' often suggests that the rule or agreement was broken on purpose, not accidentally.
They knowingly violated the no-smoking policy.
Pro Tip 3/3Authority Clash
To 'violate' typically means to oppose an authority setting or upholding the rule, law, or agreement.
Activists violated the curfew imposed by the government.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Severity
Using 'violate' in a legal context implies serious consequences, more than just making a mistake.
The company violated environmental laws and faced substantial fines.
Pro Tip 2/3Intentional Action
'Violate' often suggests that the rule or agreement was broken on purpose, not accidentally.
They knowingly violated the no-smoking policy.
Pro Tip 3/3Authority Clash
To 'violate' typically means to oppose an authority setting or upholding the rule, law, or agreement.
Activists violated the curfew imposed by the government.
Pro Tip 1/3Legal Severity
Using 'violate' in a legal context implies serious consequences, more than just making a mistake.
The company violated environmental laws and faced substantial fines.
Pro Tip 2/3Intentional Action
'Violate' often suggests that the rule or agreement was broken on purpose, not accidentally.
They knowingly violated the no-smoking policy.
Pro Tip 3/3Authority Clash
To 'violate' typically means to oppose an authority setting or upholding the rule, law, or agreement.
Activists violated the curfew imposed by the government.
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Why good leaders make...
It's that they have violated the very definition of leadership. They have violated this deep-seated social contract. We know that they allowed their people to be sacrificed so they could protect their own interests, or worse, they sacrificed their people to protect their own interests. This is what so offends us, not the numbers. Would anybody be offended if we gave
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Sniper Keeps His Cool PIPE...
Martin assembles the safety team and reviews the dangers of firing live rounds in the lab shooting guns indoors is not exactly a safe endeavor eisenerz everybody needs to have eye protection on if there's a safety violation or if there's a an emergency where there's an injury I'll call head in the medic
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What "Orwellian" really...
in which one is compelled to disregard their own perception in place of the officially dictated version of events, leaving the individual completely dependent on the State's definition of reality itself. The result is a world in which even the privacy of one's own thought process is violated,
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Empathy costs no dime PIPE...
purpose to my life that I would generate activism that people begin to fight for their rights when all of you that have experienced violation how many of you have reported your violations how many of you have thought read read for any of your values and please stick your hands
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Why don't perpetual...
it could sustain life indefinitely. There's just one problem. They don't work. Ideas for perpetual motion machines all violate one or more fundamental laws of thermodynamics, the branch of physics that describes the relationship between different forms of energy.
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The surprising science...
situations may no doubt deserve to be preferred to others but none of them can be desert none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice or to corrupt the
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Amanda Burden: How...
then to maintain them to ensure that they are for everyone, that they are not violated, invaded, abandoned or ignored. If there is any one lesson that I have learned in my life as a city planner, it is that public spaces have power.
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Why are we happy? Why...
between one permanent situation and another. Some of these situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others, but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules
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Erika Cheung: Theranos,...
You don't know. Right? And deleting a data point is really violating one of the things that I found so beautiful about the scientific process -- it really allows the data to reveal the truth to you.
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What are the universal...
The UDHR itself, despite being highly authoritative and respected, is a declaration, not a hard law. So when individual countries violate it, the mechanisms to address those violations are weak.
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Why good leaders make...
It's that they have violated the very definition of leadership. They have violated this deep-seated social contract. We know that they allowed their people to be sacrificed so they could protect their own interests, or worse, they sacrificed their people to protect their own interests. This is what so offends us, not the numbers. Would anybody be offended if we gave
Video examples
Sniper Keeps His Cool PIPE...
Martin assembles the safety team and reviews the dangers of firing live rounds in the lab shooting guns indoors is not exactly a safe endeavor eisenerz everybody needs to have eye protection on if there's a safety violation or if there's a an emergency where there's an injury I'll call head in the medic
Video examples
What "Orwellian" really...
in which one is compelled to disregard their own perception in place of the officially dictated version of events, leaving the individual completely dependent on the State's definition of reality itself. The result is a world in which even the privacy of one's own thought process is violated,
Video examples
Empathy costs no dime PIPE...
purpose to my life that I would generate activism that people begin to fight for their rights when all of you that have experienced violation how many of you have reported your violations how many of you have thought read read for any of your values and please stick your hands
Video examples
Why don't perpetual...
it could sustain life indefinitely. There's just one problem. They don't work. Ideas for perpetual motion machines all violate one or more fundamental laws of thermodynamics, the branch of physics that describes the relationship between different forms of energy.
Video examples
The surprising science...
situations may no doubt deserve to be preferred to others but none of them can be desert none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice or to corrupt the
Video examples
Amanda Burden: How...
then to maintain them to ensure that they are for everyone, that they are not violated, invaded, abandoned or ignored. If there is any one lesson that I have learned in my life as a city planner, it is that public spaces have power.
Video examples
Why are we happy? Why...
between one permanent situation and another. Some of these situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others, but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules
Video examples
Erika Cheung: Theranos,...
You don't know. Right? And deleting a data point is really violating one of the things that I found so beautiful about the scientific process -- it really allows the data to reveal the truth to you.
Video examples
What are the universal...
The UDHR itself, despite being highly authoritative and respected, is a declaration, not a hard law. So when individual countries violate it, the mechanisms to address those violations are weak.
Example 1 of 10
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Roger Nash Baldwin
American Activist
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.
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John O. Brennan
American Public Servant
We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.
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Ramzan Kadyrov
Chechen Politician
You have to ask the people about democracy. I know what my people want, and I cannot understand these people who violate peace.
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Etgar Keret
Israeli Writer
In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.
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Da Brat
American Rapper
I'm a very caring and loving person and I would defend anybody's honor who's been violated.
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Jack Kingston
American Politician
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
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T. S. Eliot
American Poet
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
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Theodore Parker
American Theologian
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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Ramsey Clark
American Public Servant
Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
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Sergei Lavrov
Russian Diplomat
You cannot strengthen the law by violating the law.
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Roger Nash Baldwin
American Activist
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.
Quote examples
John O. Brennan
American Public Servant
We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.
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Ramzan Kadyrov
Chechen Politician
You have to ask the people about democracy. I know what my people want, and I cannot understand these people who violate peace.
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Etgar Keret
Israeli Writer
In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.
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Da Brat
American Rapper
I'm a very caring and loving person and I would defend anybody's honor who's been violated.
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Jack Kingston
American Politician
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
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T. S. Eliot
American Poet
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
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Theodore Parker
American Theologian
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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Ramsey Clark
American Public Servant
Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?
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Sergei Lavrov
Russian Diplomat
You cannot strengthen the law by violating the law.
Example 1 of 10
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