VIOLATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does violated mean? 

• VIOLATED (adjective)
  The adjective VIOLATED has 1 sense:

1. treated irreverently or sacrilegiously

  Familiarity information: VIOLATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIOLATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treated irreverently or sacrilegiously

Synonyms:

profaned; violated

Similar:

desecrated (treated with disrespect and contempt)

 Context examples 

No principle of either would be violated by my marriage with Mr. Darcy.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

There might be only ten or fifteen men altogether, he said, but the will of the majority became the law for the whole ten or fifteen, and whoever violated that will was punished.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He had violated the law on both counts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Their innate sense of right has been violated,” Maud Brewster said, joining the conversation.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was a torment, this hand that touched him and violated his instinct.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred, and all duty violated.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

All which, however happily tempered by the laws of that kingdom, have been sometimes violated by each of the three parties, and have more than once occasioned civil wars; the last whereof was happily put an end to by this prince’s grand-father, in a general composition; and the militia, then settled with common consent, has been ever since kept in the strictest duty.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)