Word Meanings - VIOLATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated. Specifically: -- Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc. "The violation of my

Additional info about word: VIOLATION

The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated. Specifically: -- Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc. "The violation of my faith." Shak. An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church. Udall. Interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance. Ravishment; rape; outrage. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VIOLATION)

• Breach
• Rupture
• divulsion
• gap
• quarrel
• violation
• nonperformance
• detortion
• Wresting
• twisting
• distortion
• perversion
• decurvity
• devexity
• recurvation
• Infraction
• Violation
• infringement
• breaking
• disturbance
• breach
• nonobservance
• Inversion
• Reversal
• deflection
• alteration
• permutation
• transposition

Related words: (words related to VIOLATION)

• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• QUARRELING
  Engaged in a quarrel; apt or disposed to quarrel; as, quarreling factions; a quarreling mood. -- Quar"rel*ing*ly, adv.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• WRESTLE
  1. To contend, by grappling with, and striving to trip or throw down, an opponent; as, they wrestled skillfully. To-morrow, sir, I wrestle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Shak. Another, by a
• ALTERATION
  1. The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker. 2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive
• DETORTION
  The act of detorting, or the state of being detorted; a twisting or warping.
• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• WREST
  1. To turn; to twist; esp., to twist or extort by violence; to pull of force away by, or as if by, violent wringing or twisting. "The secret wrested from me." Milton. Our country's cause, That drew our swords, now secret wrests them from our hand.
• RUPTURED
  Having a rupture, or hernia.
• RUPTUREWORT
  Same as Burstwort. A West Indian plant somewhat resembling burstwort.
• BREAKAWAY
  A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede. 2. An animal that breaks away from a herd.
• INFRACTION
  The act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law. I. Watts.
• DISTURBANCE
  The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil;
• NONOBSERVANCE
  Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.
• TWISTER
  A girder. Craig. (more info) 1. One who twists; specifically, the person whose occupation is to twist or join the threads of one warp to those of another, in weaving. 2. The instrument used in twisting, or making twists. He, twirling his twister,
• PERVERSION
  The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong end or use. "Violations and perversions of the laws."
• PERMUTATION
  Barter; exchange. Permutation lock, a lock in which the parts can be transposed or shifted, so as to require different arrangements of the tumblers on different occasions of unlocking. (more info) 1. The act of permuting; exchange of the thing
• BREAKDOWN
  1. The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall. A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called,
• RUPTURE
  Hernia. See Hernia. 4. A bursting open, as of a steam boiler, in a less sudden manner than by explosion. See Explosion. Modulus of rupture. See under Modulus. Syn. -- Fracture; breach; break; burst; disruption; dissolution. See Fracture. (more
• 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.
• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• INTERTWIST
  To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
• OATHBREAKING
  The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak
• PEACEBREAKER
  One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n.
• UPBREAK
  To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface.
• PERBREAK
  See PARBREAK
• OUTBREAK
  A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection. "Mobs and outbreaks." J. H. Newman. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak.