transgress: meaning and definitions

To go beyond or over (a limit or boundary); exceed or overstep:"to make sure that her characters didn't transgress the parameters of ordinariness"(Ron Rosenbaum).

To act in violation of (the law, for example).

To commit an offense by violating a law, principle, or duty.

To spread over land, especially over the land along a subsiding shoreline. Used of the sea.