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Thesaurus: transgress

To pass over or beyond; to surpass.

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  1. v. t. To pass over or beyond; to surpass.
  2. v. t. Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the /imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.
  3. v. t. To offend against; to vex.
  4. v. i. To offend against the law; to sin.
  5. v. act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
  6. v. spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline
  7. v. commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
  8. v. pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
  9. To offend against the law; to sin.Who transgressed in the thing accursed. I Chron. ii. 7.
  10. v:100 v. act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises v. spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline v. pass beyond (limits or boundaries)