0 past simple and past participle of contravene
1 to do something that a law or rule does not allow, or to break a law or rule:
In such instances, the issues were clear : should a man live with another man's wife, he had contravened customary law.
Further, it is misleading to imply that this contravened the beliefs of the founders.
Unfortunately, this absence results in claims that have little or no grounding in data, often contravened by facts that are biological certainties.
Her use of even draws our attention to some expectation that will be contravened.
In the best-case scenarios, they constitute parallel structures to those defined in the municipal codes, but too often these are contravened.
It is unconvincing since there is nothing mistaken in regarding speech, in certain circumstances, as a type of revelation and usage is not contravened.
A rule in a cell is contravened by all (but only those) rules to the immediate right of that cell.
Note: the input to each listing rule is of course the output of the rule that is contravened.
