Contravene is valid Scrabble Word

Is contravene a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is contravene valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

10 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
19 points in WWF

Definitions for CONTRAVENE in dictionary:

VERB:

to act counter to
offend against the prohibition or order of (a law, treaty, or code of conduct)
conflict with (a right, principle, etc.), especially to its detriment
To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.
To violate; to nullify; to be inconsistent with; as, to contravene a law.
go against, as of rules and laws
deny the truth of

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to go or act contrary to; violate

Words related to CONTRAVENE

contravened17 contravenes16 contravening18 contravention18 contraventions19

Words that contain CONTRAVENE

contravened17 contravener16 contravenes16 contraveners17

How to use CONTRAVENE in a sentence

The imposition of it, however, would obviously contravene our treaty with New Granada and infringe the contract of that Republic with the Panama Railroad Company.
A division made by the four Allies might contravene the terms of a treaty which existed between any two of the Allies prior to the outbreak of the war.
Though they will freely risk their lives to steal, they will not contravene the wild rule of the desert.
I think I have confined myself to inferences that no man can successfully contravene.
Nature is always consistent, though she feigns to contravene her own laws.
Nor does this doctrine contravene the right of preventing vessels from entering a blockaded port.
Where is he to find a wife? Can the judges contravene the law? Your marriage with Colonel Chabert has priority on its side and every legal right.
You have an instinctive horror for everything that could restore you to reason, and will not even listen to representations that contravene your insanity.
The chevalier became the fashion, and it was considered bad form to contravene his taste.
Inapplicable mathematics, we are told, is perfectly thinkable, and systematic deductions, in themselves valid, may be made from concepts which contravene the facts of perception.

And some of them diametrically contravene that which I have written.
The only prescription is that it shall not contravene the provisions of the proclamation.

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