to violate
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8.3
- verb
- /ˈvaɪəˌleɪt/
- Offensive
:
violar
- And you didn't feel uncomfortable or violated?
- feel violated
This guy gets arrested for fucking or, you know, violating children.
- This guy gets arrested for fucking or, you know, violating children.
- Did they hold you, Rock You, cuddle you, or did they harm you or violate you or shake you?
- The first advantage is like, I come from a culture that it's a taboo to violate a woman.
- And another thing, you know, after my dad was was violated for the third time, you know, and the family's falling apart.
- That's what I thought until he punched you in the violated my genitals.
Examples
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She'd die if she knew you violated an innocent young woman.
Fiction book (1993) -
You just violated her with your penis?
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How dare you violate me this way?
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You have violated my wife.
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The body must not be violated.
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A woman may "consent" under pressure, but still feel violated or compromised by the experience.
Academic text (1999) -
I was violated.
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So when a trusted peer and, later, a coach preyed upon my vulnerability and violated me, I was so frightened and ashamed I completely shut down.
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Every time I do that, people come up and confide in me that they not only have been sexually assaulted or violated in some way, but that they've never told a soul.
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How could anyone dare to violate another person like that?
Synonyms
690
5.3
To force someone to have sex against their will
110
8.1
To force someone to have sex against their will
5
9.9
To force someone to have sex against their will
Antonyms
How Violent
- Offensive
54
8.3
- NSFW
119
5.7
- Offensive
91
6.4
149
4.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Violate comes from the Latin verb violare, meaning 'to use force' or 'to treat roughly', and it shares a root with violence. So, when the word is used about a person, it means someone was forced and their body and safety were not respected.