If someone violates an agreement, law, or promise, they break it. They went to prison because they violated the law = break + violation violations vio·la·tion To deprive the boy of his education is a violation of state law He was in violation of his contract. + violator violators vio·la·tor a government which is a known violator of human rights
destroy; "Don't violate my garden"; "violate my privacy" fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns; "This sentence violates the rules of syntax
If someone violates a special place, for example a grave, they damage it or treat it with disrespect. Detectives are still searching for those who violated the graveyard. = desecrate + violation vio·la·tion The violation of the graves is not the first such incident