What is another word for contravene?
Pronunciation:
[ kˌɒntɹəvˈiːn], [ kˌɒntɹəvˈiːn], [ k_ˌɒ_n_t_ɹ_ə_v_ˈiː_n]
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Similar words for contravene:
- conflict (noun)
- contradict (noun)
- contravene (noun)
- belie (verb)
- break (verb)
- commit (verb)
- complain (verb)
- contradict (verb)
- counter (verb)
- counteract (verb)
- defeat (verb)
- defy (verb)
- deny (verb)
- disclaim (verb)
- disobey (verb)
- disprove (verb)
- falsify (verb)
- go against, contradict (verb)
- hinder (verb)
- impugn (verb)
- infringe (verb)
- refute (verb)
- social (verb)
- transgress (verb)
- traverse (verb)
- violate (verb)
- other synonyms
- counteract
- defeat
- deny
- disobey
- disprove
- hinder
- other relevant words
- traverse
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Contravene:
n.
• conflict (noun) • contradict (noun) • contravene (noun)v.
• belie (verb)- dis affirms,
- dis agree,
- dis agreeing,
- dis affirmed,
- be-lying,
- dis agreed,
- dis-agree,
- dis affirming,
- dis-agreed,
- be lied,
- be-lied,
- dis agrees,
- dis-agrees,
- dis-affirm,
- dis-affirms,
- dis affirm,
- dis-agreeing,
- dis-affirming,
- be lying,
- dis-affirmed.
- reneging on,
- dis regarding,
- dis-regards,
- dis regards,
- dis-regard,
- dis regarded,
- reneged on,
- reneges on,
- dis regard,
- in-fracted,
- dis-regarding,
- infracts,
- in fracted,
- dis-regarded.
- going in for,
- goes out for,
- went for broke,
- going out for,
- went out for,
- went in for,
- goes for broke,
- goes in for.
- ex postulating,
- taking exception to,
- be moans,
- be moaning,
- dis sent,
- looked askance,
- dis approving,
- be wail,
- made fuss,
- dis-sent,
- be-moaned,
- be-wail,
- makes fuss,
- kicked fuss,
- ex-postulates,
- ex-postulate,
- re-pining,
- kick up fuss,
- dis-approving,
- dis-approves,
- took exception to,
- dis-approved,
- make fuss,
- be-moaning,
- dis-approve,
- finds fault,
- be wailed,
- makes a fuss,
- kicking a fuss,
- in-dict,
- be-moan,
- be-wailing,
- looking askance,
- pro-testing,
- ex-postulating,
- dis approves,
- sounded off,
- making a fuss,
- kicks a fuss,
- re pined,
- dis approve,
- looks askance,
- dis-sents,
- pro-tested,
- kicked up a fuss,
- made a fuss,
- takes exception to,
- pro testing,
- re pine,
- dis sents,
- re-pines,
- kicked a fuss,
- kicking fuss,
- re pines,
- ex postulates,
- in dict,
- kicking up a fuss,
- making fuss,
- kick a fuss,
- be-wails,
- finding fault,
- re-pine,
- sounds off,
- pro tested,
- be-wailed,
- kicks up fuss,
- kicks fuss,
- ex postulate,
- re pining,
- ex postulated,
- dis approved,
- be moaned,
- re-pined,
- be wails,
- be wailing,
- be moan,
- found fault,
- be-moans,
- kicks up a fuss,
- ex-postulated,
- kicking up fuss,
- kicked up fuss,
- kick fuss,
- sounding off.
- flying face of,
- refusing to accept,
- haddest bone pick,
- fly the face of,
- had bone to pick,
- calling question,
- flying in the face of,
- flies the face of,
- flying in face of,
- refusing accept,
- thumbsed down,
- hath bone to pick,
- calls in question,
- refuse accept,
- flies face of,
- hadst bone pick,
- flies in face of,
- fly face of,
- refuses to accept,
- had bone pick,
- calls question,
- thumbsing down,
- flies in the face of,
- refuses accept,
- have bone pick,
- having bone to pick,
- refused accept,
- flew the face of,
- called question,
- has bone to pick,
- flying the face of,
- hath bone pick,
- thumbses down,
- call question,
- haddest bone to pick,
- having bone pick,
- hast bone pick,
- hadst bone to pick,
- flew in face of,
- flew in the face of,
- flew face of,
- refused to accept,
- calling in question,
- hast bone to pick,
- called in question,
- has bone pick.
- counter worked,
- re-turned,
- dis-appoint,
- counter works,
- dis appoints,
- counter-working,
- re turn,
- counter-worked,
- dis-appointing,
- counter working,
- dis appointed,
- dis-appointed,
- counter-works,
- dis appointing,
- playing off,
- hitting back,
- plays off,
- Counter-work,
- counterworks,
- re turning,
- re-turns,
- backtalked,
- dis appoint,
- re-turning,
- counter work,
- dis-appoints,
- backtalking,
- counterworked,
- Re-turn,
- re turns,
- hits back.
- counter-acts,
- counter balances,
- in validates,
- counter-check,
- counter vailing,
- counter vails,
- re dress,
- counter-checks,
- counter checks,
- cancels out,
- in-validate,
- counter acted,
- counter-vailed,
- counter-vail,
- in validate,
- re-dresses,
- counter acts,
- counter-checked,
- counter-acted,
- re-dressing,
- counter-act,
- re-dressed,
- pre-vents,
- going against,
- re dresses,
- counter-vails,
- counter checking,
- pre-venting,
- counter-acting,
- goes against,
- in validating,
- re dressing,
- in validated,
- Counterchecked,
- re dressed,
- went against,
- counter acting,
- counter-balancing,
- counter vail,
- counter vailed,
- pre vent,
- counter act,
- pre-vented,
- counter-vailing,
- pre-vent,
- counter balancing,
- counter-checking,
- counter-balanced,
- in-validating,
- counter balanced,
- counter check,
- counter checked,
- counter balance,
- in-validates,
- canceling out,
- in-validated,
- pre venting,
- re-dress,
- pre vents.
- dis-comfits,
- beating the system,
- dis-comfit,
- counter plots,
- un-doing,
- out-wit,
- beating down,
- un-does,
- takes wind out sails,
- co-oked,
- out wits,
- de feats,
- sub-jugate,
- causing setback,
- dis concerted,
- sub-due,
- counter plotted,
- sur-mounted,
- taking wind out sails,
- took wind out sails,
- sur mount,
- sur mounting,
- re duces,
- dis-concert,
- over-turning,
- re-duces,
- counterplots,
- co-oking,
- dis-concerted,
- took wind out of sails,
- out-wits,
- threw for loop,
- nosing out,
- re-duce,
- take wind out sails,
- de-feat,
- out-witted,
- dis concerting,
- un doing,
- un done,
- takes wind out of sails,
- nosed out,
- dis-concerts,
- un does,
- beat system,
- over-turn,
- beats down,
- dis comfits,
- counter-plots,
- out witting,
- co oking,
- dis comfit,
- sur-mount,
- sur-mounts,
- counter plot,
- noses out,
- sur mounts,
- de-feats,
- throws for loop,
- out witted,
- co oked,
- un did,
- throwing for loop,
- counter-plotting,
- puts end to,
- over turning,
- sur-mounting,
- de feat,
- over turns,
- putting end to,
- dis-concerting,
- out-witting,
- dis concerts,
- taking wind out of sails,
- beats system,
- un-did,
- counter-plotted,
- beating system,
- beats the system,
- casts down,
- counter plotting,
- causes setback,
- sub due,
- re duce,
- sub dues,
- caused setback,
- dis concert,
- over-turns,
- sur mounted,
- sub-dues,
- sub jugate.
- dis acknowledges,
- dis carding,
- re canting,
- be grudged,
- dis avows,
- dis believing,
- dis-avowing,
- dis-credit,
- dis-acknowledging,
- dis allow,
- dis believes,
- dis carded,
- be grudging,
- with-holds,
- dis-believing,
- re-butting,
- dis-crediting,
- dis credits,
- re-canted,
- be grudges,
- be grudge,
- dis acknowledged,
- saying no to,
- dis-acknowledged,
- dis-carding,
- calls on,
- dis cards,
- re butted,
- not bought,
- dis avow,
- dis-owned,
- with held,
- re strain,
- dis-acknowledges,
- dis allowed,
- re-buffing,
- dis acknowledge,
- dis-cards,
- re-strain,
- dis believed,
- dis-owning,
- re fusing,
- re-buffed,
- said no to,
- dis-believe,
- dis-credits,
- dis card,
- dis-believed,
- re strained,
- dis owning,
- be-grudge,
- re straining,
- dis allowing,
- re-strained,
- re fuse,
- enjoined from,
- re canted,
- be-grudges,
- dis-card,
- dis-allowing,
- turned thumbs down,
- dis-avowed,
- re strains,
- dis credited,
- not buys,
- re butting,
- dis-avows,
- enjoins from,
- with holding,
- with-hold,
- re-straining,
- enjoining from,
- dis believe,
- dis crediting,
- dis acknowledging,
- dis-allows,
- dis-allowed,
- dis-carded,
- re-fuse,
- re buffing,
- re-canting,
- dis-avow,
- dis-believes,
- re fuses,
- dis-allow,
- be-grudged,
- turns thumbs down,
- with hold,
- dis owned,
- dis-acknowledge,
- with-held,
- re fused,
- with holds,
- re-fused,
- dis-credited,
- says no to,
- dis avowed,
- dis allows,
- dis avowing,
- be-grudging,
- re-butted,
- not buying,
- re buff,
- dis credit,
- turning thumbs down,
- re buffs,
- re-buffs,
- re-strains,
- re buffed.
- re-tract,
- re-tracts,
- re tracts,
- divorces from,
- turns back on,
- re tract,
- dis-claimed,
- divorces oneself from,
- be-little,
- divorcing from,
- dis claimed,
- de-cline,
- divorced from,
- de clines,
- dis-claim,
- washes hands of,
- washed hands of,
- dis claim,
- turning back on,
- be littles,
- de cline,
- divorcing oneself from,
- be-littles,
- de-clines,
- dis claims,
- dis-claims,
- dis claiming,
- washing hands of,
- dis-claiming,
- divorced oneself from.
- rises arms,
- taking law into hands,
- over stepping,
- goes counter to,
- with stood,
- re-volts,
- mis behaved,
- dis-obeys,
- rise arms,
- over steps,
- over stepped,
- take law into hands,
- going counter to,
- revolutioning,
- de sert,
- took law in to hands,
- took law into hands,
- dis-obeyed,
- paid no attention to,
- re-volution,
- mis-behaved,
- brake rules,
- re-volutions,
- with-stand,
- taking law in to own hands,
- wert remiss,
- recalcitrated,
- went counter to,
- take law in to hands,
- takes law in to own hands,
- takes law into hands,
- rises in arms,
- revolutioned,
- wast remiss,
- recalcitrating,
- are remiss,
- mis-behaves,
- dis obeyed,
- took law into own hands,
- re volts,
- art remiss,
- is remiss,
- pays no attention to,
- taking law into own hands,
- mis behaving,
- re-volt,
- dis-obeying,
- re volutions,
- not heeds,
- with-standing,
- re volt,
- being remiss,
- dis obeys,
- rising arms,
- rose arms,
- breaking rules,
- takes law in to hands,
- am remiss,
- paying no attention to,
- take law in to own hands,
- sets aside,
- not minded,
- mis-behaving,
- mis behave,
- mis-behave,
- insurrected,
- rising in arms,
- not listened,
- insurrecting,
- with stand,
- not minds,
- over-steps,
- not minding,
- with stands,
- taking law in to hands,
- broke rules,
- with-stands,
- takes law into own hands,
- dis obeying,
- dis-obey,
- insurrects,
- were remiss,
- dis obey,
- de-sert,
- mis behaves,
- breaks rules,
- recalcitrates,
- rose in arms,
- over-stepping,
- was remiss,
- over-stepped,
- not listens,
- with standing,
- payed no attention to,
- took law in to own hands.
- fourflushes,
- mis-quote,
- four flushes,
- pro-motes,
- fakes it,
- dis-torts,
- trumping up,
- phonying up,
- fourflush,
- dis-tort,
- pro-moting,
- four flushing,
- mis states,
- four-flushes,
- co loring,
- mis stating,
- deaconing,
- faked it,
- frames up,
- mis-quoting,
- mis-stated,
- four flushed,
- four-flushed,
- deaconed,
- mis quoted,
- pro moting,
- mis quoting,
- dis torts,
- mis stated,
- pro-mote,
- mis-quoted,
- mis quotes,
- trumps up,
- faking it,
- put act,
- dis tort,
- mis-stating,
- fourflushed,
- mis-states,
- phonies up,
- mis-quotes,
- phonied up,
- mis state,
- co-loring,
- framing up,
- mis-state,
- put an act,
- mis quote,
- fourflushing.
- gat way,
- gets in the way,
- de bars,
- gat the way,
- gotten in way,
- got way,
- getting way,
- de laying,
- boxed in,
- de barred,
- gat in way,
- de barring,
- gets way,
- de lays,
- getting in the way,
- get way,
- de-bars,
- get in way,
- getting the way,
- de-lay,
- gets the way,
- gotten way,
- gets in way,
- de-barred,
- inter-fere,
- de-laying,
- gotten in the way,
- inter-feres,
- getting in way,
- get the way,
- de-barring,
- boxing in,
- gotten the way,
- hog tie,
- de-bar,
- inter feres,
- de-lays,
- de bar,
- inter fere,
- snafuing,
- got in the way,
- gat in the way,
- got in way,
- got the way,
- de lay.
- threw book at,
- skins alive,
- cutting to shreds,
- swiped at,
- throws the book at,
- cuts shreds,
- casts aspersions up on,
- threw the book at,
- pins something on,
- throws book at,
- casting doubt upon,
- casts aspersions upon,
- casting doubt up on,
- sticking it to,
- swiping at,
- stuck it to,
- thumbing nose at,
- throwing the book at,
- throwing book at,
- cut shreds,
- thumbs nose at,
- zinged,
- pinning something on,
- threw doubt on,
- cast aspersions up on,
- throwing doubt on,
- sticked to,
- casting aspersions upon,
- sticks it to,
- casts doubt up on,
- cutting shreds,
- cast doubt up on,
- sticking to,
- throws doubt on,
- call in to question,
- pinned something on,
- thumbed nose at,
- swipes at,
- casts doubt upon,
- sticked it to,
- cuts to shreds,
- casting aspersions up on.
- giving lie to,
- gives thumbs down to,
- giving the lie to,
- giving thumbs down to,
- taking a stand against,
- gives the lie to,
- replying to,
- de-bated,
- shoots full holes,
- de-bates,
- took stand against,
- gave lie to,
- take stand against,
- de-bating,
- shoot full holes,
- shoots full of holes,
- shot full holes,
- burned down,
- de bating,
- argued against,
- burnt down,
- replies to,
- shoots down,
- de bated,
- de bates,
- de bate,
- shooting down,
- takes stand against,
- gave the lie to,
- took a stand against,
- shot full of holes,
- gave thumbs down to,
- taking stand against,
- shooting full holes,
- argues against,
- burning down,
- de-bate,
- shooting full of holes,
- gives lie to,
- takes a stand against.
Other synonyms:
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- jack up.
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- default.
- Counterchecking,
- countercheck,
- cancelled out,
- cancel out,
- counter-balances,
- counter-balance,
- canceled out,
- cancelling out,
- neutralize,
- go against,
- counterchecks.
- Counterplotting,
- squash,
- skunked,
- Blanking,
- over turn,
- Squashing,
- counterplot,
- outwitting,
- put end to,
- cast down,
- beat the system,
- counter-plot,
- casting down,
- skunking,
- beat down,
- shellac,
- cause setback,
- out wit,
- Counterplotted,
- throw for loop,
- take wind out of sails,
- nose out,
- Blanked.
- veto,
- spurn,
- Tabooed,
- turn down,
- calling on,
- withhold,
- forgoing,
- withholds,
- enjoin from,
- disclaim,
- not buy,
- Tabooing,
- kept back,
- Forgone,
- call on,
- keep back,
- keeping back,
- called on,
- turn thumbs down,
- say no to,
- keeps back,
- forsake,
- taboo.
- break rules,
- go counter to,
- not mind,
- insurrect,
- Mutinied,
- not heed,
- not listen,
- be remiss,
- not listening,
- mutiny,
- recalcitrate,
- pay no attention to,
- take law into own hands,
- setting aside,
- not heeding,
- Revolutionizing,
- rise in arms,
- not heeded,
- overstep,
- fly in face of.
- blow sky high,
- find unfounded,
- disconfirming,
- knock bottom out of,
- poke holes in,
- shoot holes in,
- knock props out,
- disconfirmed,
- disconfirm.
- get around,
- regress,
- assert,
- run out,
- growl,
- impact,
- aggrieve,
- comeback,
- get,
- serve,
- cake,
- appal,
- ravisher,
- bind,
- draw a blank,
- badmouth,
- intrepid,
- avoid,
- brush off,
- gravel,
- muttering,
- pulley,
- shell,
- transfix,
- dishonest,
- impertinence,
- rebuke,
- fall upon,
- shut up,
- give way,
- typeface,
- plagiariser,
- rest,
- squinch,
- barrack,
- even out,
- swear,
- bankruptcy,
- pass over,
- mash,
- oblige,
- horn in,
- deadbolt,
- declare,
- Responding,
- take leave,
- inject,
- cosset,
- crabby,
- hurt,
- wince,
- call in question,
- recrudesce,
- enquiry,
- charge,
- misdemeanour,
- give the lie to,
- fight down,
- grasp,
- spike out,
- pull back,
- champion,
- engagement,
- pass,
- flair,
- beat,
- overreach,
- clean-living,
- mariner,
- appease,
- liquidate,
- scotch malt whisky,
- clean house,
- sniff out,
- despoilment,
- bumble,
- gobble,
- scotch whisky,
- adapt,
- guard,
- mental disorder,
- endure,
- nonstarter,
- skinny,
- equalizer,
- have bone to pick,
- cylinder block,
- roadblock,
- look,
- get-go,
- destruct,
- drag through the mud,
- prisonbreak,
- plosive,
- grouchy,
- mystify,
- affray,
- lour,
- flush it,
- cross thwart,
- bear,
- outride,
- out,
- revulsion,
- hybrid,
- secretive,
- jailbreak,
- smasher,
- plumb,
- boxed-in,
- Pirated,
- indict,
- view as,
- repine,
- snivel,
- agitate,
- white,
- beauty,
- backslide,
- blank,
- crossbeam,
- closelipped,
- stamp,
- clear,
- land,
- dedicate,
- period,
- baulk,
- fall apart,
- gnarl,
- come in,
- stolon,
- defeat,
- appall,
- down,
- noncompliance,
- creak,
- requiem,
- suffer,
- carry,
- cease,
- go for broke,
- bobble,
- suspension,
- remark,
- counterweight,
- force,
- amaze,
- difference of opinion,
- override,
- bedevil,
- make clean,
- forget,
- uncontaminating,
- hem in,
- grumble,
- institutionalize,
- do in,
- font,
- interference,
- bewilder,
- outrage,
- come across,
- ending,
- interpolate,
- disobey,
- disgust,
- quail,
- cancel,
- moan,
- pit,
- entrench,
- bruise,
- chance on,
- nose,
- revolutionize,
- pirate,
- deviate,
- blackball,
- interlace,
- overcome,
- setback,
- constrain,
- browning automatic rifle,
- licking,
- shrink,
- closing,
- cripple,
- pique,
- ferocity,
- discover,
- clutches,
- renunciation,
- groan,
- clutch,
- foreswear,
- rejoinder,
- shoot,
- tightlipped,
- split,
- have got,
- baffle board,
- stick it to,
- downfall,
- profanation,
- outperform,
- friction,
- spite,
- armed combat,
- impingement,
- play off,
- commotion,
- end,
- sea robber,
- Pirating,
- nerve,
- fall in,
- continue,
- counteract,
- mutter,
- avert,
- refute,
- rafter,
- prohibit,
- intrust,
- quit,
- plagiarizer,
- detain,
- celebrate,
- spindle,
- stop over,
- excise,
- call into question,
- frame up,
- breakout,
- profane,
- disordered,
- gap,
- lay off,
- inquiry,
- fend off,
- breakage,
- mantrap,
- flimsy,
- counterpunch,
- delay,
- interbreeding,
- crash,
- handicap,
- proscribe,
- vanish,
- campaign,
- scots,
- lock chamber,
- mint,
- flak,
- complicate,
- gibe,
- flaw,
- keep down,
- reenact,
- chuck out,
- impediment,
- take advantage,
- match,
- cave in,
- rearward,
- overrun,
- dodge,
- stick with,
- develop,
- inverse,
- even off,
- divorce from,
- Perpetrated,
- freeze,
- whorl,
- take out,
- beefed,
- reserve,
- human face,
- stoppage,
- daring,
- waste,
- impale,
- interlock,
- work stoppage,
- come to,
- eject,
- snub,
- skreak,
- taproom,
- set out,
- dam,
- disapprove,
- congest,
- buffet,
- correct,
- fumble,
- fount,
- jack,
- last out,
- head,
- institutionalise,
- misbehaviour,
- press,
- take hold,
- notice,
- abide by,
- impair,
- hybridizing,
- kick back,
- prevent,
- hyphen,
- bolt of lightning,
- practice,
- grumbling,
- break away,
- custody,
- commandeer,
- faithful,
- malt whisky,
- operate,
- fouled,
- paltering,
- vary,
- puzzle,
- enact,
- let out,
- plunder,
- discontinue,
- derangement,
- boot out,
- jack-tar,
- unfearing,
- put,
- remonstrate,
- interdict,
- despite,
- antagonistic,
- screech,
- dish antenna,
- apply,
- pitch,
- surf,
- cut off,
- break off,
- malt whiskey,
- bring out,
- botch,
- equaliser,
- barricado,
- accommodate,
- disruption,
- bilk,
- clamber,
- postponement,
- irrupt,
- plagiarist,
- neglect,
- legal profession,
- traversal,
- sidetrack,
- confine,
- turn out,
- backlash,
- dish out,
- conclude,
- dismay,
- four flush,
- electronegative,
- wait,
- hold in,
- featherbed,
- squash vine,
- befuddle,
- start out,
- push,
- enhancer,
- recoup,
- proscribed,
- make a fuss,
- hindrance,
- curb,
- fuck up,
- vote down,
- fly ball,
- take for,
- uncover,
- watch,
- replication,
- impress,
- tear,
- outwit,
- devote,
- run into,
- mess up,
- eliminate,
- foul,
- block off,
- transparency,
- obturate,
- immobilize,
- Tarred,
- rails,
- scare off,
- looker,
- whimper,
- hijack,
- renege on,
- bag,
- flinch,
- wangle,
- squeeze,
- throw book at,
- digest,
- ruining,
- dah,
- lock away,
- Forsworn,
- die,
- uninfected,
- note,
- stopover,
- frame,
- prison-breaking,
- step down,
- rail off,
- shock,
- burn,
- infringe,
- attain,
- unsuccessful person,
- pull,
- close up,
- doubtfulness,
- prise,
- berate,
- reveal,
- surround,
- dispirit,
- crack,
- embarrass,
- expose,
- push out,
- stay put,
- tap,
- pirate ship,
- encroach upon,
- corruptible,
- outgo,
- hold up,
- cut across,
- good luck,
- full point,
- divorce oneself from,
- deprave,
- complain,
- finish,
- finis,
- shellac varnish,
- whine,
- sweep,
- contend,
- offsetting,
- daunt,
- overthrow,
- jib,
- mental disturbance,
- go wrong,
- put up,
- verboten,
- despoil,
- inversion,
- fudge,
- hold out,
- shine,
- Fussing,
- minus,
- negatively charged,
- ambo,
- obtrude upon,
- unwrap,
- open frame,
- dilapidation,
- sink,
- fierceness,
- contrary,
- abandon,
- throw doubt on,
- sporty,
- desecration,
- foresee,
- squeak,
- turnover,
- flack,
- suppress,
- quell,
- push aside,
- ruination,
- scare,
- take,
- mesh,
- squash rackets,
- falsify,
- sidestep,
- boxed,
- groused,
- shinny,
- gaolbreak,
- grieve,
- dish up,
- panache,
- antagonise,
- erupt,
- respite,
- find fault,
- compensate,
- lug,
- fall back,
- willful neglect,
- scotch whiskey,
- oversight,
- set forth,
- put off,
- bring back,
- sustain,
- come together,
- revile,
- renegade,
- stick by,
- nonpayment,
- detect,
- salting,
- bring down,
- phony up,
- outfox,
- squelch,
- aspect,
- umbrage,
- get the better of,
- loser,
- fulminate,
- trench,
- clang,
- choke down,
- banish,
- take note,
- respectfulness,
- evert,
- expression,
- intermit,
- cut to shreds,
- dishful,
- counterplan,
- interview,
- full stop,
- dish aerial,
- vilify,
- chew up,
- sacrilege,
- transom,
- discount,
- go out for,
- wear,
- empale,
- stuffy,
- furiousness,
- stuff,
- keep an eye on,
- worried,
- shellack,
- mishandle,
- lock in,
- buck,
- omit,
- give,
- disprove,
- close-fitting,
- insurrection,
- counterpoise,
- rebound,
- contempt,
- make,
- get over,
- support,
- deny,
- smack,
- swan,
- protestation,
- vacate,
- rupture,
- immobilise,
- outdo,
- bolt out,
- runway,
- strangle,
- vitiate,
- fibbing,
- clasp,
- bollix,
- coronach,
- ordain,
- reversal,
- go past,
- offshoot,
- riposte,
- conk out,
- closely,
- demolish,
- malign,
- head off,
- even up,
- usurpation,
- fluff,
- untune,
- curl,
- zinging,
- dismiss,
- outmatch,
- cohere,
- engine block,
- give out,
- spring,
- shove,
- pry,
- dart,
- glide by,
- hold back,
- bawl out,
- Parried,
- knock off,
- corrupt,
- counter,
- blocking,
- strike up,
- Breaching,
- fighting,
- grouch,
- lecture,
- scandalise,
- hoo-hah,
- keep,
- irreverence,
- watch over,
- plain,
- unmake,
- kvetch,
- hybridize,
- turn over,
- injure,
- intervene,
- bewail,
- Trashed,
- overturned,
- pass up,
- jeer,
- knock over,
- knockout,
- pilot,
- chew out,
- decamp,
- boldness,
- separate,
- betray,
- geological fault,
- snap off,
- relegate,
- span,
- clangoring,
- impudence,
- wing,
- confide,
- overrule,
- start,
- infract,
- houseclean,
- clank,
- serve up,
- heel counter,
- threnody,
- book,
- disclose,
- Enacting,
- shut away,
- noise,
- bungle,
- rail in,
- strickle,
- sea dog,
- ledgeman,
- persist,
- lower,
- train,
- freedom fighter,
- cull,
- trave,
- mistake,
- wipe out,
- broken,
- step in,
- scramble,
- argufy,
- outstrip,
- deflect,
- scavenge,
- last,
- tent flap,
- swallow,
- Everted,
- pall,
- bollix up,
- part,
- draw in,
- crush,
- cover,
- hitch,
- four-flushing,
- buccaneer,
- tabu,
- stopping point,
- repudiate,
- highjack,
- find,
- bang,
- maintain,
- rumble,
- burn up,
- jostling,
- brass,
- keep out,
- engage,
- confuse,
- capitulum,
- fly sheet,
- better,
- plaint,
- frustration,
- skinned alive,
- misstate,
- repulsion,
- turn back,
- quash,
- revolutionise,
- blockade,
- aver,
- Negativing,
- stop consonant,
- pulling,
- mental block,
- courageous,
- blockage,
- barroom,
- verify,
- mollycoddle,
- offensive,
- spoliation,
- lamentation,
- fly front,
- divulge,
- give up,
- starting time,
- lift,
- good time,
- crabbed,
- preclude,
- slapdash,
- thunderbolt,
- cargo deck,
- put in,
- hedge,
- occupy,
- sound off,
- burns down,
- blare,
- default option,
- pull up stakes,
- laying waste,
- rape,
- closure,
- hardy,
- shut,
- competitiveness,
- go away,
- frugal,
- offensive activity,
- handle,
- eversion,
- inconsistency,
- audacious,
- contradict,
- error,
- back,
- ten-strike,
- present,
- back up,
- snug,
- pause,
- closemouthed,
- outsmart,
- debauch,
- except,
- anticipate,
- Moaned,
- pin something on,
- send,
- spoilation,
- reversion,
- leave,
- regulate,
- prevail,
- fake,
- smash,
- disdain,
- dishonour,
- disaccord,
- kick up a fuss,
- churn up,
- old salt,
- assume,
- equipoise,
- respond,
- Transgressed,
- stay on,
- demoralize,
- traverse,
- city block,
- presume,
- clog up,
- battle,
- beefing,
- obtain,
- skirt,
- unsay,
- burst,
- flee,
- sporting,
- relapse,
- change by reversal,
- jam,
- trust,
- despoilation,
- gay,
- rule out,
- tampering with,
- repercussion,
- de-escalate,
- encounter,
- scottish,
- lace,
- hoo-ha,
- crossbreed,
- reb,
- remain,
- expunge,
- measure,
- evildoing,
- cleanse,
- soapbox,
- pamper,
- rise up,
- turf out,
- break dance,
- halt,
- EVERTS,
- rescind,
- ball up,
- wash hands of,
- elapse,
- fly in the face of,
- conclusion,
- put down,
- terminate,
- fake it,
- bust,
- salted,
- admit,
- clean and jerk,
- peach,
- upturned,
- svelte,
- backfire,
- ginmill,
- podium,
- wrecking,
- ill-tempered,
- insult,
- bump,
- appreciation,
- bad-tempered,
- catch,
- baby,
- crossbreeding,
- turn,
- hydrofoil,
- nurse,
- break down,
- seafarer,
- wiretap,
- walk out,
- pulley-block,
- wail,
- smother,
- mix up,
- cup of tea,
- consecrate,
- crusade,
- transversal,
- tolerate,
- front,
- cargo hold,
- vaporize,
- fend,
- detention,
- honor,
- occlusive,
- withdraw,
- cling,
- wildness,
- make bold,
- damp,
- beetle off,
- kill,
- rise,
- plosive consonant,
- unclouded,
- choke up,
- go up,
- demote,
- sportsmanlike,
- cargo area,
- cleave,
- go bad,
- quarrel,
- crisscross,
- hybridisation,
- break out,
- concord,
- return,
- hybridization,
- vehemence,
- law-breaking,
- mar,
- frighten off,
- fight back,
- poke,
- collapse,
- swage,
- take up,
- fend for,
- burn down,
- black eye,
- intrude on,
- absquatulate,
- stiffly,
- desolate,
- obtrude,
- concur,
- yammer,
- follow,
- take off,
- trump up,
- tent-fly,
- hamper,
- nix,
- lock up,
- forestall,
- foul up,
- abdicate,
- sputter,
- grimace,
- interbreed,
- demerit,
- scandalize,
- light,
- diss,
- distressed,
- croak,
- nauseate,
- score,
- itch,
- offset printing,
- arise,
- evade,
- flub,
- fragile,
- objection,
- disturb,
- forswearing,
- bounce,
- ravishment,
- turned back on,
- interject,
- commencement,
- turn away,
- showtime,
- miscarry,
- pervert,
- intersect,
- foreclose,
- run off,
- ricochet,
- prevention,
- kerfuffle,
- besiege,
- pooh-pooh,
- lulu,
- verso,
- stand firm,
- violate,
- thin,
- crossing,
- wound,
- sideboard,
- debar,
- stick to,
- discord,
- speak out,
- coin,
- forbidden,
- stick,
- jaw,
- turn the tide,
- skin alive,
- dauntless,
- put away,
- legal community,
- deduct,
- runner,
- entrust,
- setoff,
- affect,
- fortify,
- encumber,
- choke back,
- branch,
- infest,
- retain,
- go by,
- played off,
- stiletto heel,
- place,
- argue against,
- savage,
- adjust,
- bollocks up,
- invalidating,
- desert,
- tampers with,
- wear out,
- screw up,
- value,
- assault,
- let on,
- rebellion,
- trouble,
- horror,
- slim,
- split up,
- breached,
- Infracted,
- substantiate,
- saucer,
- stand,
- go,
- buttock,
- flunk,
- have words,
- despise,
- grizzle,
- scoot,
- confirm,
- stripe,
- hurly burly,
- tampered with,
- cut,
- depress,
- dress down,
- muff,
- dishonor,
- insurrectionist,
- kick,
- chide,
- clog,
- flash,
- kick downstairs,
- sprint,
- scrap,
- repugn,
- fill up,
- track,
- skin,
- leave out,
- put on act,
- scratch,
- tip over,
- outset,
- throw the book at,
- sorrow,
- disinherit,
- bollocks,
- ear,
- crucify,
- rift,
- everting,
- stick around,
- fuddle,
- skinning alive,
- rigidly,
- disorder,
- throw,
- skirmish,
- slap,
- tump over,
- outgrowth,
- box up,
- going for broke,
- ruffle,
- quetch,
- damaging,
- interrogative sentence,
- sticks to,
- stand by,
- regard,
- break in,
- frighten away,
- transverse,
- clench,
- lament,
- choke,
- repel,
- cast aspersions upon,
- screak,
- rostrum,
- harbor,
- cheeseparing,
- tight,
- equilibrium,
- diaphragm,
- coddle,
- case,
- decline,
- sicken,
- deterrent,
- framed up,
- stave off,
- interruption,
- stomp,
- discompose,
- desecrate,
- chance upon,
- disturbed,
- obedience,
- breakers,
- circuit breaker,
- make up,
- seaman,
- rag,
- scold,
- finale,
- gob,
- deference,
- fall,
- break,
- tabulator,
- esteem,
- speak up,
- cumber,
- bound,
- call down,
- falling out,
- brush,
- opposite,
- cast doubt upon,
- animadvert,
- ward off,
- blow,
- stick out,
- stinting,
- transgress,
- demoralise,
- sparing,
- diverge,
- break of serve,
- brine-cured,
- deem,
- dubiousness,
- duck,
- ignition lock,
- top,
- straggle,
- cracking,
- discombobulate,
- unobjectionable,
- fly in the teeth of,
- funk,
- lapsing,
- misbehavior,
- vituperate,
- ringlet,
- braw,
- arrest,
- face up,
- Negatived,
- maverick,
- tree stump,
- slender,
- scare away,
- relinquish,
- murmur,
- time lag,
- subdue,
- airless,
- give away,
- fray,
- Tars,
- obligate,
- shot down,
- scotch malt whiskey,
- kickoff,
- misrepresent,
- confining,
- manipulate,
- reverting,
- backsliding,
- go back on,
- dun,
- offense,
- ride out,
- deflower,
- psychological disorder,
- lambaste,
- flutter,
- purchasable,
- pose,
- be little,
- railing,
- brush aside,
- Counterwork,
- take flight,
- set-back,
- reply to,
- entertain,
- little,
- concoct,
- criminal offense,
- blasphemy,
- misquote,
- fairly,
- confused,
- elegy,
- storage area,
- set off,
- void,
- hit back,
- rebuff,
- happen upon,
- vex,
- blank out,
- bond,
- wonder,
- fold,
- thwartwise,
- shut out,
- draw back,
- severance,
- Vied,
- avow,
- indulge,
- spike heel,
- corroborate,
- slide by,
- incompatibility,
- aviate,
- Fussed,
- bug,
- brook,
- dampen,
- take exception to,
- pulley block,
- cut through,
- spoiling,
- refuse,
- cringe,
- come apart,
- saloon,
- resign,
- tar,
- go off,
- obviate,
- gust,
- pulpit,
- resile,
- fury,
- thumb nose at,
- Infracting,
- dais,
- hold fast,
- muffle,
- prohibited,
- impinge on,
- balance,
- bomb,
- handgrip,
- misdirect,
- go in for,
- winnow out,
- pick,
- spoilage,
- commit,
- retrogress,
- gainsay,
- take a hop,
- rainfly,
- prize,
- invest,
- scud,
- digress,
- cocker,
- fell,
- dumbfound,
- sin,
- interrogate,
- difference,
- abnegate,
- get down,
- mention,
- call on the carpet,
- murmuring,
- torment,
- grumpy,
- contain,
- intermission,
- thrust out,
- happy chance,
- represent,
- sea rover,
- get out,
- recess,
- collide with,
- beginning,
- greyback,
- insurgent,
- double check,
- garble,
- mate,
- grousing,
- stunner,
- tenuous,
- plum,
- beleaguer,
- folie,
- penny-pinching,
- offend,
- closing curtain,
- keen,
- shin,
- trounce,
- fire,
- pillory,
- strip,
- altercate,
- louse up,
- undermine,
- abscond,
- brave out,
- surmount,
- moderate,
- scoff,
- four-flush,
- leave off,
- blame,
- invert,
- squash racquets,
- trample on,
- rumbling,
- go along,
- doubt,
- reverberate,
- salt-cured,
- near,
- act out,
- take a stand against,
- bankrupt,
- botch up,
- harbour,
- counterworking,
- kibosh,
- queer,
- cook,
- cube,
- check,
- muck up,
- stuck to,
- rising,
- warp,
- streak,
- turnaround,
- nigh,
- throw in,
- slip by,
- flurry,
- despoliation,
- unaired,
- ravish,
- attack,
- elan,
- distort,
- bowl over,
- clangor,
- refuse to accept,
- defect,
- bluff,
- shut down,
- untie,
- competition,
- mutual exclusiveness,
- impede,
- layover,
- clap,
- fearless,
- perturbation,
- Tarring,
- inveigh,
- impugn,
- to-do,
- fox,
- weather,
- break up,
- stomach,
- repossess,
- fussy,
- rap,
- give thumbs down to,
- cold-shoulder,
- first,
- debase,
- smell out,
- replied to,
- have,
- shoot full of holes,
- sweetheart,
- occlude,
- come upon,
- break-dance,
- point,
- time out,
- stymy,
- freeze off,
- repeal,
- hybridise,
- literary pirate,
- opine,
- query,
- interrogation,
- lambast,
- mark,
- bemoan,
- reprimand,
- deplore,
- alter,
- boom,
- take to task,
- stupefy,
- look askance,
- close down,
- point out,
- make off,
- neat,
- style,
- misquotes,
- transcend,
- knock down,
- fair,
- interrogative,
- agree,
- control,
- relapsing,
- retort,
- deject,
- shoot down,
- slip away,
- crown of thorns,
- bargain down,
- eruption,
- subjugate,
- renege,
- fresh,
- disquieted,
- turnabout,
- clangour,
- escape,
- bide,
- shift,
- stifle,
- side,
- go for,
- motion,
- get across,
- honour,
- facial expression,
- plosive speech sound,
- occlusion,
- nail,
- discourtesy,
- auction block,
- recidivate,
- adjudge,
- jar,
- uprising,
- hinder,
- light upon,
- default on,
- hind,
- surpass,
- soften,
- stymie,
- vote out,
- move,
- dirge,
- grip,
- misquotation,
- turn back on,
- reduce,
- bribable,
- criminal offence,
- tamper with,
- shrink back,
- founder,
- take exception,
- yawp,
- reverse gear,
- juvenile delinquency,
- nonremittal,
- swipe at,
- gross out,
- crosspiece,
- economical,
- loosen,
- scent out,
- hold on,
- forswear.
- barricade,
- bolt,
- clash,
- run counter to,
- counterbalance,
- stump,
- intercept,
- contest,
- failure,
- infringement,
- stonewall,
- struggle,
- fracture,
- close,
- weaken,
- encroachment,
- contravenes,
- recant,
- delinquency,
- disallow,
- protest,
- countermine,
- Infringing,
- disobedience,
- lapse,
- collide,
- antagonize,
- intrusion,
- dash,
- beat against,
- crime,
- discomfit,
- Against,
- destroy,
- nonplus,
- upset,
- withstand,
- work against,
- dispute,
- interrupt,
- scorn,
- dish,
- circumvent,
- bar,
- disturbance,
- dam up,
- invalidate,
- traduce,
- disrupt,
- transgression,
- scoff at,
- obstruct,
- offence,
- blast,
- baffle,
- impinge,
- block up,
- renounce,
- misdeed,
- trample upon,
- checkmate,
- belay,
- exceed,
- go beyond,
- choke off,
- elude,
- fault,
- question,
- not accept,
- break the law,
- invasion,
- nullify,
- differ,
- repress,
- set at naught,
- countervail,
- violence,
- infraction,
- confound,
- interfere with,
- stop,
- revoke,
- trample under foot,
- annul,
- fail,
- misdemeanor,
- stultify,
- retract,
- disregard,
- strike,
- turn the tables,
- violation,
- hedge in,
- Forelay,
- disconcert,
- contravention,
- take back,
- revolt,
- infringe upon,
- fly,
- jostle,
- turn the scale,
- ruin,
- be contrary to,
- recoil,
- counterpose,
- shake the head,
- trench on,
- block,
- restrain,
- foil,
- lock,
- cut both ways,
- undo,
- scotch,
- flummox,
- reverse,
- breaking,
- balk,
- disown,
- frustrate,
- infringements,
- offset,
- not admit,
- controvert,
- disavow,
- depart,
- perplex,
- discountenance,
- slight,
- abrogate,
- repugnance,
- brave,
- sabotage,
- act against,
- react,
- rail,
- spoil,
- neutralise,
- dereliction,
- cheek,
- ignore,
- contemn,
- meet head-on,
- run against,
- invade,
- forbid,
- spike.
How to use "Contravene" in context?
One definition of contravene is to go against, or fail to comply with (a law, regulation, etc.). Another definition is to act in a way that opposes one's goals or intentions. To contravene can also refer to the act of contradicting something. When contravening someone's expectations, it can be seen as disrespectful or annoying. To contravene can also be to break a rule.
Paraphrases for Contravene:
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Equivalence
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
violate.
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
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Independent
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Adjective
contradictory, contrary.
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Verb, past tense
broke, contrary, Defied, Infringed, Conflicted, Contradicted.
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Verb, non-3rd person singular present
break, commit, constitute, contradict, flout, oppose.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
Breaching.
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Verb, base form
infringe.
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Adjective
Homophones for Contravene:
Hyponym for Contravene:
v.
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social
break, go against, offend, breach, violate, transgress, infract.
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social
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