CONTRAVENE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contravene mean? 

• CONTRAVENE (verb)
  The verb CONTRAVENE has 2 senses:

1. go against, as of rules and laws

2. deny the truth of

  Familiarity information: CONTRAVENE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTRAVENE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they contravene    ... he / she / it contravenes   
Past simple: contravened   
Past participle: contravened   
-ing form: contravening   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go against, as of rules and laws

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

conflict; contravene; infringe; run afoul

Context example:

This behavior conflicts with our rules

Hypernyms (to "contravene" is one way to...):

breach; break; go against; infract; offend; transgress; violate (act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

contravention (coming into conflict with)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deny the truth of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

contradict; contravene; negate

Hypernyms (to "contravene" is one way to...):

differ; disagree; dissent; take issue (be of different opinions)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "contravene"):

deny (declare untrue; contradict)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

I am sure you cannot long be content to pass your leisure in solitude, and to devote your working hours to a monotonous labour wholly void of stimulus: any more than I can be content, he added, with emphasis, to live here buried in morass, pent in with mountains—my nature, that God gave me, contravened; my faculties, heaven-bestowed, paralysed—made useless.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)