violate
/ˈvaɪəˌleɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Drinking-and-driving violates the law."
- "Accessing unauthorized files violates security protocol."
- "In stark opposition to what CBS editorial leadership told staff on Monday, Redstone said that she did not believe Dokoupil had violated the network’s editorial standards when he grilled Coates over the contents of his new book."
- "That Antonia whom you violated, was your Sister! That Elvira whom you murdered, gave you birth! Tremble, abandoned Hypocrite! Inhuman Parricide! Incestuous Ravisher!"
- "Bulgarian soldiers in the meantime entered Turkish houses, violated the women and girls and stole everything they could lay their hands on."
- "If you don't have a job, you can't pay the money, then you get violated and have to go back to prison."
Etymology
From Middle English violaten (“to defile, render impure”), from violat(e) (“defiled, desecrated”, also used as the past participle of violaten) + -en, borrowed from Latin violātus, perfect passive participle of violō (“to treat with violence (whether bodily or mental)”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Ultimately from vīs (“strength, power, force, violence”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *weyh₁-, violaten, violat, violātus
Usage
Inflected Forms
violates (present, singular)
violating (participle, present)
violated (participle, past)
violated (past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
violated (first person, past)
violatest (archaic, present)
violated (past, second person)
violatedst (archaic, past)
violateth (archaic, present)
violated (past, singular)