contravene

I saw it was useless to argue with him: his features were stamped with despair, and to contravene a man's fate is impossible.

She wanted to defend her sister, but she had no arguments weighty enough to contravene those of her brother-in-law.

Maza's tyranny had so infuriated Don Rosendo's friends that they spared no means to contravene it.

He was far more anxious not to contravene the unwritten laws of the Undergraduate world.

I must grieve, I must weep: it seems the law of God, and the only one that men are not disposed to contravene.