transgress
verb
[ tranzˈɡrɛs ]
• go beyond the limits of (what is morally, socially, or legally acceptable).
• "she had transgressed an unwritten social law"
Similar:
misbehave,
behave badly,
break the law,
err,
lapse,
commit an offence,
fall from grace,
sin,
degenerate,
do wrong,
go astray,
slip up,
be out of order,
trespass,
disobey,
defy,
infringe,
breach,
contravene,
violate,
break,
flout,
infract,
commit a breach of,
• (of the sea) spread over (an area of land).
• "each continent has been transgressed by continental seas"
Origin:
late 15th century (earlier (late Middle English) as transgression ): from Old French transgresser or Latin transgress- ‘stepped across’, from the verb transgredi, from trans- ‘across’ + gradi ‘go’.
