violate

See also: Violâte

English

Etymology

From Latin violātus, past participle of violāre (“treat with violence, whether bodily or mental”), from vis (“strength, power, force, violence”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪəˌleɪt/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Verb

violate (third-person singular simple present violates, present participle violating, simple past and past participle violated)

1. (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).

   Antonyms: comply, obey

   Drinking-and-driving violates the law.

   Accessing unauthorized files violates security protocol.

2. (transitive, euphemistic) To rape.
   • 1796, Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk:

     That Antonia whom you violated, was your Sister! That Elvira whom you murdered, gave you birth! Tremble, abandoned Hypocrite! Inhuman Parricide! Incestuous Ravisher!

3. (transitive, prison slang) To cite (a person) for a parole violation.
   • 2009, Shakti Belway, Bearing Witness (page 12)

     If you don't have a job, you can't pay the money, then you get violated and have to go back to prison.

   • 2014, Juanita Díaz-Cotto, Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio (page 165)

     Estela: Well, they'd take me to jail, I'd violate, and I go to prison. And maybe I get violated for six months, eight months . . . maybe 30 days, 60 days . . . You know, whatever the parole officer recommended for me, I got.

Related terms

• violation

Derived terms

• violable
• violative

Translations

to break or fail to act by rules

• Belarusian: паруша́ць impf (parušácʹ), пару́шыць pf (parúšycʹ)
• Bulgarian: наруша́вам (bg) impf (narušávam), наруша́ pf (narušá)
• Catalan: vulnerar (ca)
• Cebuano: lapas, lipas
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 違反／违反 (zh) (wéifǎn), 违反 (zh) (wéifǎn), 違犯／违犯 (zh) (wéifàn), 违犯 (zh) (wéifàn), 侵害 (zh) (qīnhài)

• Czech: porušit pf
• Danish: overtræde, krænke
• Dutch: schenden (nl)
• Esperanto: malrespekti
• French: violer (fr), transgresser (fr)
• Galician: violar (gl)
• Georgian: დარღვევა (darɣveva), შებღალვა (šebɣalva)
• German: verletzen (de), brechen (de), überschreiten (de), mißachten (de), übertreten (de)
• Greek: παραβιάζω (el) (paraviázo)
• Hungarian: megsért (hu), megszeg (hu)
• Ido: violacar (io)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: violare (it)
• Japanese: 破る (ja) (yaburu), 違う (ja) (tagau), 違反する (ja) (ihan suru) (a rule); 侵す (ja) (okasu), 侵害する (ja) (shingai suru), 侵犯する (ja) (shimpan suru) (a right)
• Korean: 침해하다 (chimhaehada)
• Latin: violō
• Maori: pekehāwani (refers to a truce), hara, takahi, tāpohe, hāparu, tāpohepohe
• Polish: naruszać (pl) impf, pogwałcać impf
• Portuguese: violar (pt), transgredir (pt)
• Romanian: viola (ro), încălca (ro)
• Russian: наруша́ть (ru) impf (narušátʹ), нару́шить (ru) impf (narúšitʹ)
• Slovak: porušiť pf
• Slovene: prekršiti pf
• Spanish: violar (es), vulnerar (es)
• Swedish: kränka (sv), överträda (sv)
• Tagalog: lumabag, sumuway, labagin, suwayin
• Telugu: అతిక్రమించు (te) (atikramiñcu)
• Ukrainian: пору́шувати impf (porúšuvaty), пору́шити pf (porúšyty)
• Vietnamese: xâm phạm (vi) (侵犯)

to rape

• Dutch: schenden (nl)
• Georgian: გაუპატიურება (gauṗaṭiureba)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: vergewaltigen (de), entehren (de), schänden (de)
• Maori: pā(w)hera
• Ukrainian: гвалтува́ти (hvaltuváty)

Further reading

• “violate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “violate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

---

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.oˈla.te/, /vjoˈla.te/
• Rhymes: -ate
• Hyphenation: vi‧o‧là‧te, vio‧là‧te

Etymology 1

Verb

violate

1. inflection of violare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

violate f pl

1. feminine plural of violato

Anagrams

• elativo, evitalo, levatoi, olivate, oliveta, voliate

---

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) violāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of violō