violate-v; 3 Senses

Sense Number 1: transgress, infract, breach

Examples:
They are violating the terms of that treaty.
The dictator violated every notion of human decency.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: Compliance
PropBank: violate.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2

Sense Number 2: harm,despoil,desecrate

Examples:
That darn cat has violated my herb garden again!
Vandals have been violating synagogues in that area.
Years of strip-mining have violated the landscape.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: violate.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3, 4, 6

Sense Number 3: rape sexually

Examples:
The plundering soldiers violated the village women.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: violate.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5