violation

noun

1 a flagrant violation of human rights:

contravention, breach, infringement, infraction, breaking, transgression, nonobservance, lack of compliance with, disobeying, disobedience, defiance, defying, flouting, flying in the face of, rebelling against;

neglect, ignoring, paying no heed to, taking no notice of.

2 the wiretaps were a severe violation of the victims' private lives:

invasion, interruption, breach, infraction;

trespass, intrusion, encroachment, disruption, disturbance, upset.

3 his daughter was threatened with violation:

rape, sexual assault, indecent assault, sexual abuse, abuse, molestation, molesting, interference, interfering, seduction, seducing;

informal bedding;

dated ravishing, ravishment, deflowering, defloration, defilement, dishonor, ruin, ruination.