Usually means: Violates or exceeds set boundaries.
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  1. transgresses: Merriam-Webster
  2. transgresses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. transgresses: Vocabulary.com
  4. transgresses: Wordnik
  5. transgresses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. transgresses: Wiktionary
  7. transgresses: Dictionary.com
  8. transgresses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. transgresses: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. transgresses: Legal dictionary

(Note: See transgress as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (transgress)

verb:  (transitive) To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
verb:  (transitive) To act in violation of some law.
verb:  (intransitive, construed with against) To commit an offense; to sin.
verb:  (intransitive, of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.
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