Usually means: To break or disregard a rule.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word violate:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. violate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. violate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. violate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. violate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. violate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Violate, violate: Wordnik
  7. violate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. violate: Wiktionary
  9. violate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. violate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. violate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. violate: Dictionary.com
  13. violate (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. violate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Violate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. violate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. violate: Rhymezone
  18. violate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. violate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. violate: Free Dictionary
  21. violate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. violate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. violate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. violate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. violate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. violate: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. violate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. violate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
verb:  (transitive) To rape.
verb:  (transitive, prison slang) To cite (a person) for a parole violation.

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