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Synonyms
trans·gress (trăns-grĕś, trănz-)

[Middle English transgressen, from Old French transgresser, from Latin trānsgredī, trānsgress-, to step across, trāns-, trans-, + gradī, to go.]

verb: -gressed, -gress·ing, -gress·es. 

transitive verb 

  1. To go beyond or over (a limit or boundary); exceed or overstep: “to make sure that her characters didn't transgress the parameters of ordinariness” (Ron Rosenbaum)
  2. To act in violation of (the law, for example).

intransitive verb 

  1. To commit an offense by violating a law or command; sin.
  2. To spread over land, especially over the land along a subsiding shoreline. Used of the sea.

derivatives

trans·gresśi·ble
adjective
trans·greśsive
adjective
trans·greśsive·ly
adverb
trans·greśsor
noun