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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?
violate From the web:
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destroy
English
Etymology
From Middle English destroyen, from Old French destruire, Vulgar Latin *destrug?, from Classical Latin d?stru?, from d?- (“un-, de-”) + stru? (“I build”). Displaced native shend (“destroy, injure”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??st???/
- Rhymes: -??
- Hyphenation: de?stroy
Verb
destroy (third-person singular simple present destroys, present participle destroying, simple past and past participle destroyed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To damage beyond use or repair.
- (transitive) To neutralize, undo a property or condition.
- (transitive) To put down or euthanize.
- (transitive) To severely disrupt the well-being of (a person); ruin.
- 2005, Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide
- Other girls in the foster home are eager to destroy her and get her kicked out of the place. It's a tough situation.
- 2005, Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide
- (colloquial, transitive, hyperbolic) To defeat soundly.
- (computing, transitive) To remove data.
- (US, colloquial, slang) To sing a song poorly.
- (bodybuilding, slang, antiphrasis) To exhaust duly and thus recreate or build up.
- (slang, vulgar) To penetrate sexually in an aggressive way.
Synonyms
- annihilate
- break
- demolish
- kill
- ruin
- waste
- See also Thesaurus:destroy
Antonyms
- build
- construct
- create
- make
- raise
- repair
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- stroyed
destroy From the web:
- what destroys the ozone layer
- what destroyed the roman empire
- what destroys pathogens
- what destroyed the dinosaurs
- what destroyed the roman republic
- what destroyed pompeii
- what destroys red blood cells
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