different between violate vs deflour
violate
English
Etymology
From Latin violatus, past participle of violare (“treat with violence, whether bodily or mental”), from vis (“strength, power, force, violence”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?va???le?t/
Verb
violate (third-person singular simple present violates, present participle violating, simple past and past participle violated)
- (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).
- Antonyms: comply, obey
- (transitive, euphemistic) To rape.
- (transitive, prison slang) To cite (a person) for a parole violation.
- 2009, Shakti Belway, Bearing Witness (page 12)
- If you don't have a job, you can't pay the money, then you get violated and have to go back to prison.
- 2014, Juanita Díaz-Cotto, Chicana Lives and Criminal Justice: Voices from El Barrio (page 165)
- Estela: Well, they'd take me to jail, I'd violate, and I go to prison. And maybe I get violated for six months, eight months . . . maybe 30 days, 60 days . . . You know, whatever the parole officer recommended for me, I got.
- 2009, Shakti Belway, Bearing Witness (page 12)
Related terms
- violation
Derived terms
- violable
- violative
Translations
Further reading
- violate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- violate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Italian
Verb
violate
- second-person plural present of violare
- second-person plural imperative of violare
- feminine plural past participle of violare
Anagrams
- evitalo, levatoi, olivate, oliveta, voliate
Latin
Verb
viol?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of viol?
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deflour
English
Etymology
From French déflorer, Late Latin deflorare, from Latin de- + flos, floris (“flower”). See flower, and compare deflorate.
Verb
deflour (third-person singular simple present deflours, present participle deflouring, simple past and past participle defloured)
- Obsolete form of deflower.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- He died innocent and before the sweetness of his soul was defloured and ravished from him.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
Anagrams
- floured, foulder, fuel rod
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