verb
definition
To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
example
Accessing unauthorized files violates security protocol.
definition
To rape.
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To cite (a person) for a parole violation.
adjective
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(of a rule or law) Having been broken or ignored, especially in a flagrant manner.
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(by extension) Abused, harmed or sexually victimized.
Examples of violated in a Sentence
In fact, you're the only one who violated a trust.
The tomb was early violated, probably in search of treasure.
When the insurgents under Duke Otto were joined by the Thuringians, Henry was compelled in 1074 to release Magnus and to make a number of concessions as the price of the peace of Gerstungen; which, however, was short-lived, as the peasants employed in pursuance of its terms in demolishing the forts, desecrated the churches and violated the ducal tombs.
Another section declared non-mailable all written or printed matter which violated any provision of the Espionage Act.
She stared down into the sink, feeling violated.
Whatever you want to call it, I felt violated.
Notwithstanding promises to the powers, he restored absolute government upon returning to Rome (12th April 1850) and violated the conditions of the surrender by wholesale imprisonment of Liberals.
Crassus accordingly proceeded to Asia, although in doing so he violated the rule which forbade the pontifex maximus to leave Italy.
But this decree was often violated.
Henry's next move was to bring a monstrous charge against the clergy, accusing them of having violated the ancient laws of praemunire in submitting to the authority of papal legates (although he himself had ratified the appoint m ent of Wolsey as legate a latere).
It was here, according to the legend, that he was tried and acquitted by a council of the gods for the murder of Halirrhothius, who had violated Alcippe, the daughter of Ares by Agraulos.
This was one of the acts brought up against him by the senatus-consulte of the 3rd of April 1814, which pronounced his fall "considering that he has violated the constitutional laws by the decrees on the state prisons."
Public opinion in America almost unanimously sustained the act; but Lincoln, convinced that the rights of Great Britain as a neutral ha .d been violated, promptly, upon the demand of England, ordered the liberation of the prisoners (26th of December).
The Czechs of Bohemia, like the Magyars, had refused to recognize the common parliament on the ground that it violated the.
It is said that Europeans who violated the prohibition have been poisoned.
We are thus able tc imagine a great variety of mechanical systems to which tht principle of virtual work can be applied without any regard tc the internal stresses, provided the hypothetical displacements be such that none of the connections of the system are violated.
The terms of the capitulation were shamefully violated by the Turks, who put to death the governor Marcantonio Bragadino with cruel torments.
In 1760 Admiral Boscawen had violated Portuguese neutrality by burning four French ships off Lagos; Pombal protested and the British government apologized, but not before the military weakness of Portugal had been demonstrated.
The Inquisition never had any jurisdiction whatever over the Indians; compulsory labour by the Indians was never legalized except on the missions, and the law was little violated; they were never compelled to work mines; of mining by the Indians for precious metals there is no evidence; nor by the Jesuits (expelled in 1767, after which their missions and other properties were held by the Franciscans), except to a small extent about the presidio of Tubac, although they did some prospecting.
We no longer condemn Shakespeare for having violated the ancient dramatic laws, nor Voltaire for having objected to the violations.
This agreement was soon violated on the pretext that garrisons had been placed in some of the free Greek cities by Antigonus, and Ptolemy and Cassander renewed hostilities against him.
It was true that the duties of the several relations were being continually violated by the passions of men, and the social state had become an anarchy.
The treaty was hardly concluded when it was violated by the Porte, which refused to recognize the right of the Walachian boiars to elect their voivode, and nominated Alexander Ypsilanti, a creature of its own.
Chapelain's Sentiments de l'Acaddmie francaise sur la tragi-comddie du Cid (1638), when its arbitration was demanded by Richelieu, and not openly repudiated by Corneille, was virtually unimportant; but it is worth remembering that no less a writer than Georges de Scudery, in his Observations sur le Cid (1637), gravely and apparently sincerely asserted and maintained of this great play that the subject was utterly bad, that all the rules of dramatic composition were violated, that the action was badly conducted, the versification constantly faulty, and the beauties as a rule stolen!
A suspicion having arisen on the part of the British government that ships of war had been fitted out in the port of Ragusa for the service of France, and that the neutrality of Ragusa had thus been violated, Boscovich was selected to undertake an embassy to London (1760),(1760), to vindicate the character of his native place and satisfy the government.
Irish rhetoric commonly styles Limerick " the city of the violated treaty."
The treaties made with the Christians were soon violated, and it seemed as if Islam would destroy itself.
The surrender of Granada on the 2nd of January 1492 was partly secured by promises of toleration, which were soon violated.
Some English merchants had violated the shadowy claim of Spain to the whole west coast of America by founding a settlement at Nootka Sound.
He then falsified all the predictions of the opposition by going to war with Denmark, not, as they had required, in support of Augustenburg, but on the ground that the king of Denmark had violated his promise not to oppress his German subjects.
But although the young king had not yet sworn to observe the charter, and in any case the other Italian princes had all violated their constitutional promises, he rejected the offer.
If he never knew she violated his trust, that wouldn't exonerate her.
You can rationalize, trying to justify yourself in your own mind, but a violated conscience will not be easily convinced.
Several Brothers to the Rescue planes violated Cuban airspace over the City of Havana.
I set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
Such designs violated the conventions by which the machinists plied their trade.
The reading of extracts from his diaries by the defense counsel, he says, made him feel " violated " .
Persistent Love The people violated the covenant, we read in verse 20, violated it repeatedly and grossly.
Yet, over 50 years on, the basic rights enshrined in the Charter are being violated all over the world.
They have violated the law and holy ordinances of the Lord our God.
Once they have been so informed, we have already violated their pristine purity.
Without such authorization, the flight would have violated UN sanctions.
Lord Hodge said she had " violated the sanctity of human life.
This means that rather than the employe proving there has been discrimination, the employer has to demonstrate s/he has not violated the law.
The just man does not transgress the rights of others or he safeguards their rights from being violated.
In February 1905, France had violated this treaty by demanding control of the Sultan's army and police force without consulting Germany.
The zones under direct german tutelage The Germans violated the armistice almost immediately by placing certain areas under direct German tutelage.
But the individual, both legal and natural, has systematically violated those limits.
But this rule is persistently violated in the Deerslayer tale.
Jesus's disciples, for example, who plucked ears of corn in passing through a field on the holy day, had, according to Rabbinical views, violated the third of the thirty-nine rules, 2 which forbade harvesting; and in healing the sick Jesus Himself broke the rule that a sick man should not receive medical aid on the Sabbath unless his life was in danger.