- violate
- v1. break, breach, infract, contravene, infringe, transgress; disobey, ignore, shun, disregard, reject, repudiate; trespass, offend, Rare. misdemean, misbehave.2. disturb, disrupt, interrupt, upset, agitate, disorder, unsettle, trouble; rend, shatter, crack, crash, destroy; interfere, intrude, Sl. butt in, encroach on.3. break through, burst through, invade, run roughshod over, trample; rupture, fracture, split.4. desecrate, profane, defile, blaspheme, treat sacrilegiously or irreverently; debase, degrade, befoul, vitiate, spoil, mar; lay waste, plunder, pillage, despoil, desolate, depredate; corrupt, deprave, pervert.5. rape, ravish, attack, assault, take by force, force; dishonor, deflower, ruin, ravage; molest, defile, outrage, debauch, seduce; abuse, ill-use, ill-treat, victimize.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.