1. (n.) Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, a violation of law, of covenants, promises, etc.

2. (n.) The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.

3. (n.) An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church.

4. (n.) Interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance.

5. (n.) Ravishment; rape; outrage.