Invertext Online Technical Dictionary

transgress

transitive verb  

transgredir

Definition 1

Violate, infringe (commandment, law, or absolutely).

Source: Invertext, from Concise Oxford Dictionary


Context: In twinning explicit gay imagery with formal beauty, he transgressed just about every taboo that middle America, a land that had already devoured Warhol, had to offer.

Source: Financial Times 13/03/2010 (Peter Aspden)

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