- break a law.
-  break a promise.
-  desecrate a cemetery.
-  Don't violate my garden.
-  offend all laws of humanity.
-  profane the name of God.
-  The soldiers raped the beautiful country.
-  The woman was raped on her way home at night.
-  This sentence violates the rules of syntax.
-  violate my privacy.
-  violate the basic laws or human civilization.
-  violate the sanctity of the church.