Definition of violation

• n. - The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.
• n. - Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc.
• n. - An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church.
• n. - Interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance.
• n. - Ravishment; rape; outrage.