different between violate vs infract

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)

1. (transitive) To break or disregard (a rule or convention).

   Antonyms: comply, obey

2. (transitive, euphemistic) To rape.
3. (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.

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

1. second-person plural present of violare
2. second-person plural imperative of violare
3. feminine plural past participle of violare

Anagrams

• evitalo, levatoi, olivate, oliveta, voliate

Latin

Verb

viol?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of viol?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?f?ækt/

Etymology 1

Latin ?nfring?, past participle ?nfractus. See infringe.

Verb

infract (third-person singular simple present infracts, present participle infracting, simple past and past participle infracted)

1. (transitive) To infringe, violate or disobey (a rule).
2. (transitive) To break off.

Related terms

• infraction

See also

• infarct

Etymology 2

Latin ?nfractus, from in- (“not”) + fractus (“broken”), past participle of fring? (“break”).

Adjective

infract (not comparable)

1. Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.
   • 1612, George Chapman, Petrarch's Seven Penitential Psalams

     a mind infract

Anagrams

• frantic, infarct