contravene🔊

To act contrary to an order; to fail to conform to a regulation or obligation.

📑 Synonyms: breach break infringe violate

💬 Quotations

[…] the other medical visitors having a consultative influence, but no power to contravene Lydgate’s ultimate decisions;

George Eliot, Middlemarch

(obsolete) To deny the truth of something.

📑 Synonyms: contradict controvert dispute gainsay

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