transgress
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
offend all laws of humanity
Types & categories
- disrespect hypernym
- sin hyponym
- blunder hyponym
- contravene hyponym
- trespass hyponym
- trespass hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 verb
spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline
The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island
Types & categories
- overspread hypernym
Related & opposite
- transgression derivation
Sense 3 verb
commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- transgression derivation
- sinning derivation
- sinner derivation
Sense 4 verb
pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
Types & categories
- pass hypernym
Related & opposite
- transgression derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | keep |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | breach |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | transgression |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | crime |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | violation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | wrongdoer |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | transgressor |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | violator |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | unsavory |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | offensive |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | violable |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | disrespect |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sin |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | blunder |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | contravene |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | trespass |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | trespass |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | transgression |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | overspread |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | transgression |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | sinning |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | sinner |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | breach |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | fall |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | transgression |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | pass |