'Transgress' definitions:
Definition of 'transgress'
(from WordNet)
verb
Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise" [syn: transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, break] [ant: keep, observe]
verb
Spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline; "The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island"
verb
verb
Definition of 'Transgress'
From: GCIDE
- Transgress \Trans*gress"\, v. i. To offend against the law; to sin. [1913 Webster]
- Who transgressed in the thing accursed. --I Chron. ii. 7. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Transgress'
From: GCIDE
- Transgress \Trans*gress"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transgressed; p. pr. & vb. n. Transgressing.] [Cf. F. transgresser. See Transgression.]
- 1. To pass over or beyond; to surpass. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the ?imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral. [1913 Webster]
- For man will hearken to his glozing lies, And easily transgress the sole command. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To offend against; to vex. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Why give you peace to this imperate beast That hath so long transgressed you ? --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'transgress'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advance upon,
- breach,
- breach the law,
- break,
- break bounds,
- break the law,
- care naught for,
- circumvent the law,
- commit a crime,
- commit sin,
- contravene,
- defy,
- disobey,
- disobey the law,
- disregard,
- disregard the law,
- do amiss,
- do violence to,
- do wrong,
- encroach,
- err,
- exceed,
- fall from grace,
- flout,
- go astray,
- go beyond,
- go counter to,
- go too far,
- go wrong,
- ignore,
- infract,
- infringe,
- intrude,
- invade,
- irrupt,
- know no bounds,
- lapse,
- make an inroad,
- misbehave,
- not conform,
- not heed,
- not keep,
- not listen,
- not mind,
- not observe,
- offend,
- overstep,
- overstep the bounds,
- refuse to cooperate,
- scoff at,
- set at defiance,
- set at naught,
- set naught by,
- sin,
- trample on,
- trample underfoot,
- trample upon,
- trespass,
- usurp,
- violate,
- violate the law