1Break or fail to comply with (a rule or formal agreement)

他们违反了停火的条款。

1. 1.1 Fail to respect (someone's peace, privacy, or rights)
   扰乱（某人的宁静）；侵犯（隐私，权利）
   they denied that human rights were being violated

   他们否认人权受到侵犯。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Such imbalances should be corrected but in manner that equally protects, not equally violates the privacy rights of men and women.
   • He wants to go to court to denounce my government for violating his human rights.
   • Moreover, transforming this view into a legal ban, and imposing it on Jane Doe and other parents, would violate their Constitutional right to privacy.
   • The Supreme Court has agreed to decide if swapping papers to correct them violates students' privacy rights.
   • I always believe in the necessity, if not the virtue, of intervention when human rights are violated, when human life is at stake and when liberty is being curtailed.
   • She said, ‘they should not hold back out of a fear they might be violating human rights’.
   • They said the salary was unfair and violated human rights.
   • Now they went into the house, and they basically violated liberty rights.
   • Another concern is ensuring that amateur video featuring people doesn't violate privacy rights.
   • The laws also endanger women's health, and violate privacy rights and the Equal Protection clause of the constitution.
   • Drivers' rights are seen as synonymous with individual freedoms; challenging them akin to violating human rights.
   • My own human rights were violated only a few weeks ago.
   • He had successfully violated my rights to privacy.
   • The court held correctly that these rights were violated both with respect to the children, and with respect to the private schools.
   • I can't wait until they start howling about their email address private property rights being violated.
   • Some lawyers said that the practice of asking customers to show a marriage certificate severely violated their human rights.
   • They claimed it was unconstitutional because it violated their rights of liberty, privacy, gender equality, security of the person and equality before the law.
   • Privacy advocates say that giving the government access to data held by commercial third parties violates constitutional privacy rights.
   • To deny prisoners access to such magazines violates their human rights.
   • The profile of perspective of how human rights being violated through the process of privatization is also expected.

   Synonyms

   invade, intrude on, encroach on, impinge on, trespass on, obtrude on, break into, interfere with, disturb, disrupt, upset, shatter
2. 1.2 Treat (something sacred) with irreverence or disrespect.
   亵渎（圣物）；玷污（圣物）
   he was accused of violating a tomb

   他被控告亵渎墓碑。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Now this can be quite violating of certain sacred norms and traditions.
   • It is a space that has been reclaimed, sacred ground that has not been violated by occupation, a space of love, magic and fertility.
   • Extreme cases come from martyrs who choose death rather than violate principles which are sacred to them.
   • Even so, the Europeans were intruders, emerging by the score from their towering vessels, appearing and disappearing without warning, violating sacred sites.
   • All accused of violating the sacred space of the child are immediately assumed to be guilty.
   • They violated the sacred trust that connects leader and follower.
   • Some laws are so sacred that we must willingly die rather than violate them.
   • Fearing the tomb had been violated, she rushed back to arouse St Peter and St John who, after exploring the tomb, confirmed what she had told them.
   • I was immortal after all, but I knew I had violated some sacred order and that this part of the repercussions.
   • She claimed that ‘sacred, hallowed turf’ had been violated and desecrated with no concern for those who lost friends and colleagues in a war in the defence of their country.
   • Native American petitioners had argued that the project would seriously damage what they held sacred and therefore violate the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.
   • Other congregations avoid technology, feeling it violates the sacred space.
   • A promise has not been kept, something true and noble and sacred has been violated, spoiled; madness and death result.
   • Curious and willing, Oedipus asks how he can do this and appease the Eumenides, whose sacred grove he violated after first entering Colonus.
   • I believe the President has violated this sacred trust between the leaders and those of whom he was entrusted to lead.
   • All should bear in mind an Egyptian curse on a tomb of the second millennium BC: ‘May he who violates my site and damages my grave or takes my body be reviled by the Ka of Re.’
   • Both corpse and monument are still there, whereas the tombs of other violated burials returned to St-Denis merely as museum displays.
   • ‘What matters to us is to rid our countries of the aggressors, to confront those who attack us, who violate what we hold sacred, or steal our riches,’ he said.
   • Orchard, apart from swearing at a Kenyan player, was also accused of violating the spirit of the game.
   • By taking the lives of their children, along with their own, parents violate this sacred and most fundamental right of their children.

   Synonyms

   desecrate, profane, treat sacrilegiously, treat with disrespect, blaspheme, defile, degrade, debase
3. 1.3literary Rape or sexually assault (someone).
   强奸，性侵犯
   Example sentencesExamples

   • After he finished violating her, he then ransacked the room stealing 1,000 baht in cash and other items before leaving.
   • The idea of who wants what, where, and when sexually can be expressed without violating anyone and without getting anyone raped.
   • We have all shed tears because we were violated.
   • All three husbands had been drunk when they violated their wives.
   • A man who wishes to insult another male can do it in no better way than by violating the women whom it is his duty to protect, thus showing him to be unable to defend them, and therefore pitiably weak.
   • She shouldered a full waterskin, and a bundle of wrapped dried meat and flour, and stepped into the footsteps of the men who had violated her and murdered her lover.
   • What mattered is only the fact that he was violated.
   • ‘When the film came out I felt undressed, and not just because I was sexually violated,’ she says, toying with her fruit salad.
   • Every time he looked at her, he remembered how she violated him.
   • Yes, he violated me, but he did not rape me.
   • I ran into the guy that violated me in the second grade.
   • It seemed to Crosse that her decomposition was relentlessly visible, that the rain was driving through her and out, violating her further even in death.
   • A rapist would have violated her and left her on the forest bed, not caring whether she lived or died.
   • He felt like he was violating her if he just pulled her top off.
   • Such wars reinforce the lesson that it is okay to kill, beat up and violate other people's partners and children, while it is not acceptable - at least in words - at home.
   • She then decided to join them and shortly after a few drinks the men forced her onto the bed, restraining her while each of the 13 delinquent youths violated her.
   • In the meantime, paedophiles and rapists are out in the community, doing what they do best, because raping, abusing, and violating women and children is all they know.
   • And then came the really painful bit - recounting the tale once again, of how her own father violated her.
   • But what makes his otherwise inspiring story so troubling is that he is now violating young people in much the same way that he was violated.
   • That she was back in his room with him touching her, hurting her, violating her.

   Synonyms

   rape, indecently assault, sexually assault, assault, force oneself on, force, sexually abuse, abuse, molest, interfere with, seduce