Wiktionary
vb. 1 To violate; to breach; to break. 2 To be unfavourable to someone. 3 To be contrary to a trend, feeling or principle. 4 To oppose; to resist
WordNet
v. fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns; "This sentence violates the rules of syntax" [syn: violate, break] [ant: conform to]
act in disregard of laws and rules; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law" [syn: transgress, offend, infract, violate, breach, break]
resist; "buck the trend" [syn: buck]
Usage examples of "go against".
Like an animal, but like a very intelligent animal, he knew he had to fight, while at the same time, he realized that the fight might go against him.
The cards began to go against me and very soon all of the money in my wallet was gone.
He's been known to go against his own party to uphold the constitution.
You do know they can go against prevailing winds, spread out in long lines, create firestorms that suck air in to feed them, and generally not do what you want them to do?
How Crisnarao, after he had made peace with the King of Oria, determined to go against the land of Catuir.
Any vote would go against them, just so most of the world would still have the access to the wormhole that the Federation has guaranteed.
I thought he was hard in Tear, but today I heard him threaten to hang men if they go against his commands.