contravene
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
go against, as of rules and laws
He ran afoul of the law
Types & categories
- breach hypernym
Related & opposite
- violation derivation
- infringement derivation
- contravention derivation
- conflict derivation
Sense 2 verb
deny the truth of
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- negation derivation
- contradiction derivation
- negation derivation
- negative derivation
- mutually exclusive derivation
- contradictory derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | violation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | infringement |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | contravention |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | conflict |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | breach |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | negation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | contradiction |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | negation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | negative |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | mutually exclusive |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | contradictory |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | disagree |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | deny |