0 past simple and past participle of violate --
1 to break or act against something, especially a law, agreement, principle, or something that should be treated with respect: --
She said that she had been treated so roughly by the hospital staff that she felt violated.
Questions of this kind violate my privacy and I am not willing to answer them.
The fishermen claimed that ships from another country had violated their territorial waters.
The doctor has been accused of violating professional ethics.
It seems that the troops deliberately violated the ceasefire agreement.
Both, however, were unfree in one further crucial way: they lacked the understanding of themselves as citizens who have rights that are being violated.
Visual sensorimotor contingencies, for example, can be violated without canceling the essentially visual nature of the resulting experience.
This inequality can easily be violated in real plasma processes.
But owners' and managers' rights of control over the enterprise could not be violated.
Intuitively, the proposed semantics minimizes the number of instances of weak constraints violated by a model.
Or the algorithm could always be on to ensure that motion limits are never violated.
This assumption is violated by ' large effect ' mutations such as lethals.
To insure originality he set the rules of composition (which he never violated in his vocal productions) at defiance.
