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1A person who breaks or fails to comply with a rule or formal agreement.
‘a major crackdown on violators of immigration regulations’
‘the new smoking restrictions call for hefty fines for violators’
‘If you don't report these violations in the workplace, you go down with the violators.’
‘Skeptics doubt they have the regulatory muscle to punish violators.’
‘The jails aren't roomy enough to include all violators.’
‘Their government has been successfully pressured to change its laws, to make searching for copyright violators easier.’
‘The measure calls on the agricultural commissioner to impose fines on would-be violators.’
2A person who treats something with irreverence or disrespect.
‘a violator of nature’
‘a violator of sacred relics’
‘The judge is a former adventurer and violator of animals worldwide.’
‘A serial violator of civilized society, its government even last week was implicated in major drug trafficking into Australia.’
‘It's a regime known as one of the worst violators of human rights in the world.’
‘Their government is a standout violator of press freedom.’
‘Eight countries were blacklisted as violators of religious freedom by the State Department.’
3literary A person who rapes or sexually assaults someone.
‘Monica is able to name the violators of her body’
‘a curse pronounced over the violators of children’
‘When the violator is someone the child knows and trusts, the experiences are especially confusing.’
‘The rape victim is forced to succumb to her violator's sexual demands.’
‘They carried identity cards that listed their official occupation as professional rapist, or 'violator of women's honour'.’
‘By inference, the law coerces the violator to marry his victim, while legitimizing his actions.’
‘Insofar as sex is always linked to violence in his writing, it also involves the patriarchal phallus as a violator of women and a threat to the son's virility.’