transgresses

verb

present tense third-person singular of transgress
1
as in falls
to commit an offense I didn't realize I was transgressing when I told your sister she looked like she had lost weight

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2
as in violates
to fail to keep don't even think about transgressing the drug laws of that Asian country, for punishments are severe and there's nothing that our government can do to intervene

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Recent Examples of transgresses But my way of dealing with that is doing something that transgresses death and making something that stays. — Todd Gilchrist, IndieWire, 24 June 2026 Engaging in what sociologist Staci Newmahr calls edgework, or risky behavior that transgresses social boundaries with another human, produces intimacy. — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026 The film transgresses time to show how greed, faith, desire and the hunger for meaning repeat themselves. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transgresses
  1. falls
  2. violates
  3. wanders
  4. breaks
  5. sins
  6. offends
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  • This park also falls along the Rio Grande and includes mountainous terrain with tall cliffs and a desert landscape.
    — Ashley Killough, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Balance is critical in helping older adults prevent falls — and it’s now considered a marker for longevity.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of falls
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  • The reforms would also tie an executive’s overall pay to safety metrics and impose shareholder penalties of up to $10 million per violation if a company violates safety rules.
    — Linh Tat, Daily News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The lawsuit argued in part that the plan violates the First Amendment, which courts have historically held protects the right to receive information.
    — BrieAnna J. Frank, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of violates
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  • This one stars Cox himself as a mysterious and formidable old man in an undertaker’s suit and parson’s hat who wanders into an Arizona border town in 1890 to gather the names of dead Mexican laborers.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Aug. 2026
  • Sometimes, my mind wanders to a question that feels inconceivable.
    — Ayana Lage, Vogue, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of wanders
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  • The needle goes into the record, and the signal is continuous, and digital, of course, breaks it up into zeros and ones.
    — Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Whichever way the debut breaks, the machines run on Nvidia's robot chips and train in Nvidia's simulators, so the intelligence layer collects on every outcome.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of breaks
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  • John DeWitt, the four-star general who oversaw the internment program, in particular, seems to be a forerunner to some of America's worst errors, paranoia, sins.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 1 Dec. 2025
  • God’s likeness, which is our true, spiritual identity, never sins and is never punished.
    — Tony Lobl, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Feb. 2025
Definition of sins
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  • But something about this circus just offends me on a spiritual level.
    — Amber Harding OutKick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • And if that notion offends you, stay home and watch on television, and turn your man caves into casinos.
    — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, 27 June 2026
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