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| Main Entry: | violate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | break a law, agreement |
| Synonyms: | breach, contaminate, contravene, defy, disobey, disregard, disrupt, encroach, err, infringe, meddle, offend, oppose, outrage, profane, resist, sacrilege, sin, transgress, trespass, withstand, infract, tamper with, trample on |
| Antonyms: | obey, observe |
| Main Entry: | violate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rape, defile |
| Synonyms: | abuse, assault, befoul, debauch, defile, desecrate, force, invade, outrage, pollute, profane, ravish, spoil |
| Main Entry: | abuse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | physically hurt or injure |
| Synonyms: | beat up, corrupt, cut up*, damage, defile, deprave, desecrate, harm, hose*, impair, maltreat, mar, mess up*, mishandle, mistreat, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pollute*, rough up, roughhouse, ruin, shake up*, spoil, taint, total*, victimize, violate, wax*, bang up, bung up, ill-treat |
| Notes: | abuse carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it |
| Antonyms: | cherish, defend, help, preserve, protect, respect |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | assault |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attack |
| Synonyms: | abuse, advance, assail, bash, beset, blast, blitz, bushwhack, charge, come down on*, go for, haul off on, invade, jump, jump down one's throat, jump on one's case, lay into, let have it, light into*, rape, ruin, set upon, shoot down, slam, slap around, storm, strike, trash, violate, work over, zap* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | violate law |
| Synonyms: | breach, contravene, disobey, disregard, infringe, offend, transgress, violate, infract, renege on |
| Antonyms: | agree, obey |
| Main Entry: | commit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perform an action |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, complete, contravene, do, enact, execute, offend, perpetrate, pull, pull off*, scandalize, sin, transgress, trespass, violate, wreak, effectuate, go for broke, go in for, go out for |
| Antonyms: | cease, desist, end, idle, loaf, rest, stop, wait |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contravene |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go against, contradict |
| Synonyms: | abjure, breach, break, combat, counteract, cross, defy, disaffirm, disobey, encroach, exclude, fight, gainsay, hinder, impugn, infringe, interfere, interpose, intrude, negate, offend, oppose, overstep, refute, reject, repudiate, resist, spurn, thwart, transgress, traverse, trespass, violate, conflict with, infract |
| Antonyms: | agree, aid, allow, approve, assent, assist, concur, consent, endorse, help, permit, uphold |
| Main Entry: | corrupt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pervert; pollute |
| Synonyms: | abase, abuse, adulterate, bastardize, blemish, blight, bribe, contaminate, damage, debase, debauch, decay, decompose, deface, defile, deform, degrade, demean, demoralize, deprave, depreciate, despoil, disfigure, disgrace, dishonor, fix, harm, hurt, impair, infect, injure, lower, lure, maltreat, mar, mistreat, misuse, outrage, pull down, putrefy, ravage, reduce, rot, ruin, spoil, square, stain, suborn, subvert, taint, undermine, violate, vitiate, warp, waste, animalize, grease palm, ill-treat |
| Antonyms: | better, chasten, cleanse, dignify, improve, purify |
| Main Entry: | debauch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deprave, corrupt |
| Synonyms: | abuse, bastardize, betray, debase, defile, deflower, demoralize, fornicate, fraternize, intrigue, inveigle, lure, pervert, pollute, ravish, ruin, seduce, subvert, tempt, violate, vitiate, warp, bestialize, brutalize, go bad, go to hell, lead astray, live in the gutter |
| Antonyms: | clean, cleanse, improve, purify, upgrade |
| Main Entry: | deflower |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ravish; take away beauty |
| Synonyms: | assault, defile, desecrate, despoil, devour, force, harm, have, mar, molest, outrage, possess, ravage, ravish, ruin, seduce, spoil, violate, deflorate, depredate |
| Main Entry: | defy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | challenge, frustrate |
| Synonyms: | baffle, beard, brave, confront, contemn, dare, defeat, deride, despise, disregard, elude, face, flout, foil, front, gibe*, hang tough*, ignore, insult, mock, oppose, provoke, repel, repulse, resist, ridicule, scorn, slight, spurn, stick*, thwart, venture, violate, withstand, fly in face of, hurl defiance at, make my day, outdare, stick fast, take one on |
| Antonyms: | give in, obey, surrender, yield |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | disobey |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disregard rules; refuse to conform |
| Synonyms: | balk, contravene, counteract, dare, decline, defy, desert, differ, disagree, evade, flout, ignore, infringe, misbehave, mutiny, neglect, object, overstep, rebel, resist, revolt, revolution, revolutionize, riot, run riot*, shirk, strike, transgress, violate, withstand, be remiss, break rules, fly in face of, go counter to, insurrect, not heed, not listen, not mind, pay no attention to, recalcitrate, rise in arms, set aside, take law into own hands |
| Antonyms: | conform, obey, oblige, regard, submit, go along |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | force |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | use violence upon |
| Synonyms: | assault, blast, break in, burst, defile, extort, jimmy*, propel, pry, push, rape, ravish, spoil, squeeze, thrust, twist, undo, violate, wrench, wrest, wring, break open, bust open, crack open |
| Antonyms: | surrender, yield |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | impinge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trespass |
| Synonyms: | affect, disturb, encroach, influence, infringe, intrude, invade, meddle, obtrude, pry, touch, violate, bear upon, make inroads |
| Antonyms: | avoid, dodge |
| Main Entry: | intrude |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trespass, interrupt |
| Synonyms: | barge in, bother, butt in*, cut in, disturb, encroach, entrench, hold up, horn in, infringe, insinuate, interfere, interject, interpolate, interpose, introduce, invade, meddle, obtrude, overstep, pester, thrust, violate, chisel in, go beyond, intercalate, interlope, intermeddle, push in |
| Antonyms: | leave, withdraw, leave alone |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | invade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attack and encroach |
| Synonyms: | access, assail, assault, breach, crash, entrench, foray, infect, infest, infringe, inroad, interfere, loot, maraud, meddle, occupy, overrun, penetrate, permeate, pervade, pillage, plunder, raid, ravage, storm, trespass, violate, burglarize, burst in, descend upon, fall on, go in, make inroads, muscle in, overspread, overswarm, swarm over |
| Antonyms: | surrender, yield, leave alone |
| Main Entry: | outrage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wrong, offend, abuse |
| Synonyms: | affront, aggrieve, defile, deflower, desecrate, force, incense, infuriate, injure, insult, jar*, madden, maltreat, mistreat, misuse, oppress, persecute, raise Cain*, rape, ravage, ravish, scandalize, shock, spoil, violate, whip up*, boil over*, burn up*, do violence to, fire up, ill- treat, kick up a row, make hit the ceiling, reach boiling point |
| Antonyms: | delight, please, make happy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pollute |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make dirty; corrupt |
| Synonyms: | adulterate, alloy, befoul, besmirch, contaminate, debase, debauch, defile, deprave, desecrate, dirty, dishonor, foul, infect, mar, poison, profane, soil, spoil, stain, sully, taint, violate, make filthy |
| Antonyms: | clean, cleanse, purify |
| Main Entry: | profane |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defile, desecrate |
| Synonyms: | abuse, befoul, blaspheme, contaminate, curse, damn, darn, debase, despoil, flame, misuse, mock, pervert, pollute, prostitute, revile, scorn, swear, trash, vice, violate, vitiate, voodoo*, be evil, commit sacrilege, commit sin, cuss, do wrong, hoodoo, mudsling, put double whammy on, talk dirty, tar |
| Antonyms: | cleanse, purify |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rape |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sexual assault by force; act of plunder |
| Synonyms: | abuse, attack, betray, compromise, corrupt, deceive, despoil, force, loot, molest, pillage, plunder, ransack, ruin, sack, seize, violate, spoliate |
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