Definition of transgress in English:

transgress

verb trɑːnsˈɡrɛstrɑːnzˈɡrɛstransˈɡrɛstranzˈɡrɛs

[with object]

1Go beyond the limits of (what is morally, socially, or legally acceptable)
she had transgressed an unwritten social law
她违反了不成文的社会规范。
Example sentencesExamples
- They experience pain, transgress borders/limits, and come into existence in situations that are stimulated by pain.
- Special courts under such proclamations tried and punished those who transgressed against the orders of the military authority.
- Does the text in some way transgress these limits?
- He affirmed the claims of justice, even if he had transgressed against them.
- The cringe of this recognition comedy is beyond humour: it transgresses the boundaries of self and society, identification and identity.
- And this temple was set up largely to commemorate the victory over the Persians who had by definition transgressed the divine limits in their attempt to conquer the Greeks.
- In each case the rejected form is taken to embody that which is beyond the bounds or transgresses the limits of, variously, decency, acceptability, or good taste.
- Their opposition is driven by a pessimistic sense that agbio is the latest example of how modern society has transgressed natural limits.
- On the one hand, early modern Italy witnessed a proliferation of new techniques of representation that transgressed against earlier, more mimetic ways of seeing and listening.
- The desire to transgress the limits and limitations of human existence is a driving force behind all art.
- Before 6pm, I'd feel I was transgressing an unwritten rule.
- In my opinion, I was transgressing standards of acceptable female behaviour - women are supposed to smile, to happily ornament the streets.
- I ask any member who has never transgressed against the moral codes to put up his or her hand; then I will not use the word we cannot use.
- This could have been a dark novel where guilt, longing and desire transgress accepted boundaries.
- The group appears to have devoted itself to making sure any person who transgressed against them or their property was reported to the authorities and dealt with as severely as possible.
- Is it not in its nature to transgress the limits of knowledge, thus revealing dimensions of life beyond the reach of other disciplines?
- Still, I'm not sure that merely transgressing social boundaries or taboos makes him any kind of trickster.
- The figures, in this way, served as surrogates of the body, enabling the idea of the body to transgress social norms without consequence.
Synonyms
misbehave, behave badly, break the law, err, lapse, commit an offence, fall from grace, stray from the straight and narrow, sin, degenerate, do wrong, go astray
informal slip up, be out of order
archaic trespass
disobey, defy, infringe, breach, contravene, violate, break, flout, infract, commit a breach of
2Geology
(of the sea) spread over (an area of land)
〔地质〕（海水）侵入（陆地）
each continent has been transgressed by continental seas
Example sentencesExamples
- As the sea level rose in the early to middle Holocene, dunes on the low-gradient shelf were transgressed and provided the core for the modern offshore sandy shoals.
- At some point during the lower Devonian, the sea began to transgress again, and this continued through the deposition of the Port Ewen formation.
- By 9500 BC the outward flow stopped and the sea began to transgress into the enlarged Great Belt, turning it brackish very slowly.
- High peat cliffs on the coasts of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island are clear examples of coastal wetland loss by transgressing sea levels.

Derivatives

transgressor

noun tranzˈɡrɛsə

He objected to the time limit and threatened £40 fine for transgressors because his wife has trouble getting around and they found it hard to shop while clock-watching.
Example sentencesExamples
- The establishment of an Anti-Corruption Commission will help reveal and expose corruption and hopefully result in prosecution of transgressors, but it will not tackle the problem at its origin.
- But we apparently choose to make an example out of petty transgressors such as these to lull ourselves into the belief that we're winning the battle against crime!
- Dare I suggest, however, that some of our fellow Europeans will only pay lip service to the law and that our country would not hand out the amount of punishment required to deter transgressors?
- This is plainly ludicrous, and if the transgressors don't learn their lesson soon, the rest of us will certainly appreciate the irony when they're surviving on their children's benefits.
- This virus is forcing all of us to look at the way we construct our respective social boundaries, and how we sentence (without trial) those perceived as transgressors.
- Ultimately, we need to have a zero tolerance policy and if that means the police pressing charges against any transgressors, then so be it.
Synonyms
offender, wrongdoer, culprit, lawbreaker, criminal, delinquent, villain, felon, reprobate, outlaw, malefactor, guilty party, black hat
sinner, trespasser, evil-doer
Law malfeasant, misfeasor
informal crook
archaic miscreant

Origin

Late 15th century (earlier (late Middle English) as transgression): from Old French transgresser or Latin transgress- 'stepped across', from the verb transgredi, from trans- 'across' + gradi 'go'.

Rhymes

acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes

Definition of transgress in US English:

transgress

verb

[with object]

1Infringe or go beyond the bounds of (a moral principle or other established standard of behavior)
违犯，违背（道德规范，行为准则）
she had transgressed an unwritten social law
她违反了不成文的社会规范。
no object they must control the impulses that lead them to transgress
Example sentencesExamples
- Before 6pm, I'd feel I was transgressing an unwritten rule.
- The desire to transgress the limits and limitations of human existence is a driving force behind all art.
- He affirmed the claims of justice, even if he had transgressed against them.
- In each case the rejected form is taken to embody that which is beyond the bounds or transgresses the limits of, variously, decency, acceptability, or good taste.
- I ask any member who has never transgressed against the moral codes to put up his or her hand; then I will not use the word we cannot use.
- And this temple was set up largely to commemorate the victory over the Persians who had by definition transgressed the divine limits in their attempt to conquer the Greeks.
- The cringe of this recognition comedy is beyond humour: it transgresses the boundaries of self and society, identification and identity.
- The group appears to have devoted itself to making sure any person who transgressed against them or their property was reported to the authorities and dealt with as severely as possible.
- On the one hand, early modern Italy witnessed a proliferation of new techniques of representation that transgressed against earlier, more mimetic ways of seeing and listening.
- Does the text in some way transgress these limits?
- Still, I'm not sure that merely transgressing social boundaries or taboos makes him any kind of trickster.
- Their opposition is driven by a pessimistic sense that agbio is the latest example of how modern society has transgressed natural limits.
- In my opinion, I was transgressing standards of acceptable female behaviour - women are supposed to smile, to happily ornament the streets.
- The figures, in this way, served as surrogates of the body, enabling the idea of the body to transgress social norms without consequence.
- They experience pain, transgress borders/limits, and come into existence in situations that are stimulated by pain.
- Is it not in its nature to transgress the limits of knowledge, thus revealing dimensions of life beyond the reach of other disciplines?
- This could have been a dark novel where guilt, longing and desire transgress accepted boundaries.
- Special courts under such proclamations tried and punished those who transgressed against the orders of the military authority.
Synonyms
misbehave, behave badly, break the law, err, lapse, commit an offence, fall from grace, stray from the straight and narrow, sin, degenerate, do wrong, go astray
disobey, defy, infringe, breach, contravene, violate, break, flout, infract, commit a breach of
1. 1.1Geology (of the sea) spread over (an area of land).
  〔地质〕（海水）侵入（陆地）
  Example sentencesExamples
  At some point during the lower Devonian, the sea began to transgress again, and this continued through the deposition of the Port Ewen formation.
  By 9500 BC the outward flow stopped and the sea began to transgress into the enlarged Great Belt, turning it brackish very slowly.
  As the sea level rose in the early to middle Holocene, dunes on the low-gradient shelf were transgressed and provided the core for the modern offshore sandy shoals.
  High peat cliffs on the coasts of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island are clear examples of coastal wetland loss by transgressing sea levels.

Origin

Late 15th century (earlier ( late Middle English) as transgression): from Old French transgresser or Latin transgress- ‘stepped across’, from the verb transgredi, from trans- ‘across’ + gradi ‘go’.

词汇	transgress
释义	Definition of transgress in English: transgress verb trɑːnsˈɡrɛstrɑːnzˈɡrɛstransˈɡrɛstranzˈɡrɛs [with object] 1Go beyond the limits of (what is morally, socially, or legally acceptable) she had transgressed an unwritten social law 她违反了不成文的社会规范。 Example sentencesExamples They experience pain, transgress borders/limits, and come into existence in situations that are stimulated by pain. Special courts under such proclamations tried and punished those who transgressed against the orders of the military authority. Does the text in some way transgress these limits? He affirmed the claims of justice, even if he had transgressed against them. The cringe of this recognition comedy is beyond humour: it transgresses the boundaries of self and society, identification and identity. And this temple was set up largely to commemorate the victory over the Persians who had by definition transgressed the divine limits in their attempt to conquer the Greeks. In each case the rejected form is taken to embody that which is beyond the bounds or transgresses the limits of, variously, decency, acceptability, or good taste. Their opposition is driven by a pessimistic sense that agbio is the latest example of how modern society has transgressed natural limits. On the one hand, early modern Italy witnessed a proliferation of new techniques of representation that transgressed against earlier, more mimetic ways of seeing and listening. The desire to transgress the limits and limitations of human existence is a driving force behind all art. Before 6pm, I'd feel I was transgressing an unwritten rule. In my opinion, I was transgressing standards of acceptable female behaviour - women are supposed to smile, to happily ornament the streets. I ask any member who has never transgressed against the moral codes to put up his or her hand; then I will not use the word we cannot use. This could have been a dark novel where guilt, longing and desire transgress accepted boundaries. The group appears to have devoted itself to making sure any person who transgressed against them or their property was reported to the authorities and dealt with as severely as possible. Is it not in its nature to transgress the limits of knowledge, thus revealing dimensions of life beyond the reach of other disciplines? Still, I'm not sure that merely transgressing social boundaries or taboos makes him any kind of trickster. The figures, in this way, served as surrogates of the body, enabling the idea of the body to transgress social norms without consequence. Synonyms misbehave, behave badly, break the law, err, lapse, commit an offence, fall from grace, stray from the straight and narrow, sin, degenerate, do wrong, go astray informal slip up, be out of order archaic trespass disobey, defy, infringe, breach, contravene, violate, break, flout, infract, commit a breach of 2Geology (of the sea) spread over (an area of land) 〔地质〕（海水）侵入（陆地） each continent has been transgressed by continental seas Example sentencesExamples As the sea level rose in the early to middle Holocene, dunes on the low-gradient shelf were transgressed and provided the core for the modern offshore sandy shoals. At some point during the lower Devonian, the sea began to transgress again, and this continued through the deposition of the Port Ewen formation. By 9500 BC the outward flow stopped and the sea began to transgress into the enlarged Great Belt, turning it brackish very slowly. High peat cliffs on the coasts of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island are clear examples of coastal wetland loss by transgressing sea levels. Derivatives transgressor noun tranzˈɡrɛsə He objected to the time limit and threatened £40 fine for transgressors because his wife has trouble getting around and they found it hard to shop while clock-watching. Example sentencesExamples The establishment of an Anti-Corruption Commission will help reveal and expose corruption and hopefully result in prosecution of transgressors, but it will not tackle the problem at its origin. But we apparently choose to make an example out of petty transgressors such as these to lull ourselves into the belief that we're winning the battle against crime! Dare I suggest, however, that some of our fellow Europeans will only pay lip service to the law and that our country would not hand out the amount of punishment required to deter transgressors? This is plainly ludicrous, and if the transgressors don't learn their lesson soon, the rest of us will certainly appreciate the irony when they're surviving on their children's benefits. This virus is forcing all of us to look at the way we construct our respective social boundaries, and how we sentence (without trial) those perceived as transgressors. Ultimately, we need to have a zero tolerance policy and if that means the police pressing charges against any transgressors, then so be it. Synonyms offender, wrongdoer, culprit, lawbreaker, criminal, delinquent, villain, felon, reprobate, outlaw, malefactor, guilty party, black hat sinner, trespasser, evil-doer Law malfeasant, misfeasor informal crook archaic miscreant Origin Late 15th century (earlier (late Middle English) as transgression): from Old French transgresser or Latin transgress- 'stepped across', from the verb transgredi, from trans- 'across' + gradi 'go'. Rhymes acquiesce, address, assess, Bess, bless, bouillabaisse, caress, cess, chess, coalesce, compress, confess, convalesce, cress, deliquesce, digress, dress, duchesse, duress, effervesce, effloresce, evanesce, excess, express, fess, finesse, fluoresce, guess, Hesse, impress, incandesce, intumesce, jess, largesse, less, manageress, mess, ness, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, phosphoresce, politesse, possess, press, priestess, princess, process, profess, progress, prophetess, regress, retrogress, stress, success, suppress, tendresse, top-dress, tress, tristesse, underdress, vicomtesse, yes Definition of transgress in US English: transgress verb [with object] 1Infringe or go beyond the bounds of (a moral principle or other established standard of behavior) 违犯，违背（道德规范，行为准则） she had transgressed an unwritten social law 她违反了不成文的社会规范。 no object they must control the impulses that lead them to transgress Example sentencesExamples Before 6pm, I'd feel I was transgressing an unwritten rule. The desire to transgress the limits and limitations of human existence is a driving force behind all art. He affirmed the claims of justice, even if he had transgressed against them. In each case the rejected form is taken to embody that which is beyond the bounds or transgresses the limits of, variously, decency, acceptability, or good taste. I ask any member who has never transgressed against the moral codes to put up his or her hand; then I will not use the word we cannot use. And this temple was set up largely to commemorate the victory over the Persians who had by definition transgressed the divine limits in their attempt to conquer the Greeks. The cringe of this recognition comedy is beyond humour: it transgresses the boundaries of self and society, identification and identity. The group appears to have devoted itself to making sure any person who transgressed against them or their property was reported to the authorities and dealt with as severely as possible. On the one hand, early modern Italy witnessed a proliferation of new techniques of representation that transgressed against earlier, more mimetic ways of seeing and listening. Does the text in some way transgress these limits? Still, I'm not sure that merely transgressing social boundaries or taboos makes him any kind of trickster. Their opposition is driven by a pessimistic sense that agbio is the latest example of how modern society has transgressed natural limits. In my opinion, I was transgressing standards of acceptable female behaviour - women are supposed to smile, to happily ornament the streets. The figures, in this way, served as surrogates of the body, enabling the idea of the body to transgress social norms without consequence. They experience pain, transgress borders/limits, and come into existence in situations that are stimulated by pain. Is it not in its nature to transgress the limits of knowledge, thus revealing dimensions of life beyond the reach of other disciplines? This could have been a dark novel where guilt, longing and desire transgress accepted boundaries. Special courts under such proclamations tried and punished those who transgressed against the orders of the military authority. Synonyms misbehave, behave badly, break the law, err, lapse, commit an offence, fall from grace, stray from the straight and narrow, sin, degenerate, do wrong, go astray disobey, defy, infringe, breach, contravene, violate, break, flout, infract, commit a breach of 1.1Geology (of the sea) spread over (an area of land). 〔地质〕（海水）侵入（陆地） Example sentencesExamples At some point during the lower Devonian, the sea began to transgress again, and this continued through the deposition of the Port Ewen formation. By 9500 BC the outward flow stopped and the sea began to transgress into the enlarged Great Belt, turning it brackish very slowly. As the sea level rose in the early to middle Holocene, dunes on the low-gradient shelf were transgressed and provided the core for the modern offshore sandy shoals. High peat cliffs on the coasts of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island are clear examples of coastal wetland loss by transgressing sea levels. Origin Late 15th century (earlier ( late Middle English) as transgression): from Old French transgresser or Latin transgress- ‘stepped across’, from the verb transgredi, from trans- ‘across’ + gradi ‘go’.
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