- contravenir
- v.to contravene, to act counter to, to be counter to, to breach.Yo falté a la disposición I contravened the law.* * *contravenir► verbo transitivo1 to contravene, infringe, violate■ contravenir las leyes to infringe the law* * *1.VT to contravene, infringe2.VI
contravenir a — to contravene, infringe
* * *verbo transitivo to contravene* * *= contravene, transgress.Ex. Any mis-spellings, poor grammar and verbose phrasing and any other features that contravene good abstracting practice must be eliminated.Ex. But it is Islam's strict code of sexual modesty that Islamists most often transgress.----* contravenir la ley = contravene + the law, break + the law.* contravenir una ley = be in breach of + law.* * *verbo transitivo to contravene* * *= contravene, transgress.Ex: Any mis-spellings, poor grammar and verbose phrasing and any other features that contravene good abstracting practice must be eliminated.
Ex: But it is Islam's strict code of sexual modesty that Islamists most often transgress.* contravenir la ley = contravene + the law, break + the law.* contravenir una ley = be in breach of + law.* * *contravenir [I31 ]vtto contravene* * *
contravenir (conjugate contravenir) verbo transitivo
to contravene
contravenir verbo transitivo & verbo intransitivo to violate, infringe: esta decisión contraviene los estatutos, this decision violates the law
'contravenir' also found in these entries:
English:
contravene
- law
* * *contravenir vtto contravene* * *contravenirI v/t contraveneII v/i:contravenir a contravene* * *contravenir {87} vt: to contravene, to infringe
Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.