All contravene synonyms

verb contravene

• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• overstep — to go beyond; exceed: to overstep one's authority.
• impugn — to challenge as false (another's statements, motives, etc.); cast doubt upon.
• violate — to break, infringe, or transgress (a law, rule, agreement, promise, instructions, etc.).
• repudiate — to reject as having no authority or binding force: to repudiate a claim.
• disobey — Fail to obey (rules, a command, or someone in authority).
• interfere — to come into opposition, as one thing with another, especially with the effect of hampering action or procedure (often followed by with): Constant distractions interfere with work.
• infringe — to commit a breach or infraction of; violate or transgress: to infringe a copyright; to infringe a rule.
• negate — to deny the existence, evidence, or truth of: an investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
• breach — If you breach an agreement, a law, or a promise, you break it.
• defy — If you defy someone or something that is trying to make you behave in a particular way, you refuse to obey them and behave in that way.
• transgress — to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
• resist — to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.
• intrude — to thrust or bring in without invitation, permission, or welcome.
• spurn — to reject with disdain; scorn.
• combat — Combat is fighting that takes place in a war.
• cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
• interpose — to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
• traverse — to pass or move over, along, or through.
• fight — a battle or combat.
• break — When an object breaks or when you break it, it suddenly separates into two or more pieces, often because it has been hit or dropped.
• trespass — Law. an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. a wrongful entry upon the lands of another. the action to recover damages for such an injury.
• oppose — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
• refute — to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
• reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
• offend — to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
• thwart — to oppose successfully; prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
• counteract — To counteract something means to reduce its effect by doing something that produces an opposite effect.
• gainsay — to deny, dispute, or contradict.
• abjure — If you abjure something such as a belief or way of life, you state publicly that you will give it up or that you reject it.
• infract — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
• flout — to treat with disdain, scorn, or contempt; scoff at; mock: to flout the rules of propriety.
• disregard — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
• contradict — If you contradict someone, you say that what they have just said is wrong, or suggest that it is wrong by saying something different.
• go against — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• disaffirm — to deny; contradict.