Word Meanings - TRANSGRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To pass over or beyond; to surpass. Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law. Dryden. 2. Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the For man will hearken to his glozing lies, And easily transgress the sole command. Milton. 3. To

Additional info about word: TRANSGRESS

1. To pass over or beyond; to surpass. Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law. Dryden. 2. Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the For man will hearken to his glozing lies, And easily transgress the sole command. Milton. 3. To offend against; to vex. Why give you peace to this imperate beast That hath so long transgressed you Beau. & Fl.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRANSGRESS)

• Encroach
• Invade
• trespass
• intrude
• transgress
• infringe
• Infringe
• Break
• violate
• contravene
• Outstep
• Exceed
• outstrip
• outwalk
• Violate
• Ravish
• injure
• abuse
• disturb
• hurt
• rape
• outrage
• debauch
• break
• profane
• disobey

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TRANSGRESS)

• Purify
• enlighten
• ameliorate
• elevate
• make better

Related words: (words related to TRANSGRESS)

• EXCEEDING
  More than usual; extraordinary; more than sufficient; measureless. "The exceeding riches of his grace." Eph. ii. 7. -- Ex*ceed"ing*ness, n. Sir P. Sidney.
• ENCROACHER
  One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.
• EXCEPT
  1. To take or leave out from a number or a whole as not belonging to it; to exclude; to omit. Who never touched The excepted tree. Milton. Wherein all other things concurred. Bp. Stillingfleet. 2. To object to; to protest against. Shak.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• RAVISHER
  One who ravishes .
• DISOBEYER
  One who disobeys.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• INVADE
  1. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress. Which becomes a body, and doth then invade The state of life, out of the grisly shade. Spenser. 2. To enter with hostile intentions; to enter
• CONTRAVENE
  1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey. 2. To violate; to nullify; to
• DEBAUCHMENT
  The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
• INFRINGER
  One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• EXCEDENT
  Excess.
• RAVISHING
  Rapturous; transporting.
• DEBAUCHNESS
  Debauchedness.
• DEBAUCH
  To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke.
• INVADER
  One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.
• TRANSGRESSIVE
  Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. -
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• OATHBREAKING
  The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak
• PEACEBREAKER
  One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
• INTRANSGRESSIBLE
  Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passes over or crossed. Holland.