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violater

violater is the alternative spelling of violator.

Meaning of violator

Noun

violator (plural violators)

  1. One who violates (a rule, a boundary, another person's body, etc.); offender
    • The ordinance subjected any violator to a fine, to imprisonment for not more than six months, to community service, or to some combination of the three.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order
    1. (euphemistic, literary) One who violates another person's body as through forced sexual activity
  2. In the publishing and packaging industries, a visual element that intentionally "violates" the underlying design, such as a starburst, color bar or "splat" on a product package or magazine cover intended to attract special attention.

Forms of violater

pluralviolaters

Origin of violater

From violate + -er, after Middle French violateur.

Questions about violater

What is violater the alternative spelling of?
Violater is the alternative spelling of violator.

Words near violater in the dictionary

  1. violas
  2. violas da braccio
  3. violascent
  4. violate
  5. violated
  6. violater
  7. violaters
  8. violates
  9. violatest
  10. violateth
  11. violating

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Adapted from Wiktionary: violater (page history and authors); violator (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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