Usually means: Violate a law or moral.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. transgress: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. transgress: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. transgress: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. transgress: Collins English Dictionary
  5. transgress: Vocabulary.com
  6. transgress: Wordnik
  7. transgress: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. transgress: Wiktionary
  9. transgress: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. transgress: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. transgress: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. transgress: Dictionary.com
  13. transgress: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Transgress: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. transgress: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. transgress: Rhymezone
  17. transgress: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. transgress: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. transgress: Free Dictionary
  20. transgress: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. transgress: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. transgress: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transgress: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. transgress: Idioms

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ 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.

Similar:
overstep, break, breach, go against, violate, infract, trespass, offend, outstrip, transcend, more...

Opposite:
obey, comply, adhere, follow

Types:
sin, crime, offense, misdeed, trespass, violation, felony, infraction, more...

Adjectives:
excessive, most, little, long, wise, doest, ashamed

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Similar:
overstep, break, breach, go against, violate, infract, trespass, offend, outstrip, transcend, more...

Opposite:
obey, comply, adhere, follow

Types:
sin, crime, offense, misdeed, trespass, violation, felony, infraction, more...

Adjectives:
excessive, most, little, long, wise, doest, ashamed

Colors:
    black,     red,     dark gray,     crimson,     maroon, more...



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