Word Meanings - INFRINGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract. If the first that did the edict infringe, Had answered for his deed. Shak. The peace . . . was infringed by Appius Claudius. Golding. 2. To

Additional info about word: INFRINGE

1. To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract. If the first that did the edict infringe, Had answered for his deed. Shak. The peace . . . was infringed by Appius Claudius. Golding. 2. To hinder; to destroy; as, to infringe efficacy; to infringe delight or power. Hooker.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INFRINGE)

• Break
• Fracture
• rupture
• shatter
• shiver
• destroy
• tame
• curb
• demolish
• tear asunder
• rend
• burst
• sever
• smash
• split
• subdue
• violate
• infringe
• Encroach
• Invade
• trespass
• intrude
• transgress
• Transgress
• pass
• disobey
• contravene
• sin
• offend
• Violate
• Ravish
• injure
• abuse
• disturb
• hurt
• rape
• outrage
• debauch
• break
• profane

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INFRINGE)

• Cohere
• hold
• stand
• Purify
• enlighten
• ameliorate
• elevate
• make better

Related words: (words related to INFRINGE)

• OFFENDANT
  An offender. Holland.
• ENCROACHER
  One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.
• SPLIT INFINITIVE
  A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• RAVISHER
  One who ravishes .
• BURSTEN
  p. p. of Burst, v. i.
• BURST
  berstan (pers. sing. berste, imp. sing. bærst, imp. pl. burston, p.p. borsten); akin to D. bersten, G. bersten, OHG. brestan, OS. brestan, 1. To fly apart or in pieces; of break open; to yield to force or pressure, especially to a sudden
• DISOBEYER
  One who disobeys.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• SHIVER-SPAR
  A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
• INVADE
  1. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress. Which becomes a body, and doth then invade The state of life, out of the grisly shade. Spenser. 2. To enter with hostile intentions; to enter
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• CONTRAVENE
  1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey. 2. To violate; to nullify; to
• SPLITFEET
  The Fissipedia.
• DEBAUCHMENT
  The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
• INFRINGER
  One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
• SHATTER-BRAINED; SHATTER-PATED
  Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.
• PERSEVERANCE
  Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. Syn. -- Persistence; steadfastness; constancy; steadiness; pertinacity. (more info)
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• DISSHIVER
  To shiver or break in pieces.
• BYSTANDER
  One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
• SUNBURST
  A burst of sunlight.
• DISSEVER
  To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; to separate; to disperse. The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm never met again. Sir P. Sidney. States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster. (more info)