Infringe

Definition: Infringe

Infringe

Verb

1. Go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran afould of the law"; "This behavior conflicts with our rules".

2. Advance beyond the usual limit.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "infringe" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Infringe

Dereliction of Duty

Verb: violate; break, break through; infringe; set aside, set at naught; encroach upon, trench upon; trample on, trample under foot; slight, neglect, evade, renounce, forswear, repudiate; wash one's hands of; escape, transgress, fail.

Desuetude

Verb: be -unaccustomed; Adjective: leave off a habit, cast off a habit, break off a habit, wean oneself of a habit, violate a habit, break through a habit, infringe a habit, leave off a custom, cast off a custom, break off a custom, wean oneself of a custom, violate a custom, break through a custom, infringe a custom, leave off a usage, cast off a usage, break off a usage, wean oneself of a usage, violate a usage, break through a usage, infringe a usage; disuse; wear off.

Disobedience

Verb: disobey, violate, infringe; shirk; set at defiance; (defy); set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face of; take the law into one's own hands; kick over the traces.

Illegality

Verb: offend against the law; violate the law, infringe the law, break the law; set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute; ignore the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands.

Nonobservance

Infringe, transgress, violate, pirate, break, trample under foot, do violence to, drive a coach and six through.

Transcursion

Encroach, trespass, infringe, trench upon, entrench on, intrench on; strain; stretch a point, strain a point; cross the Rubicon.

Unconformity

Verb: be uncomformable; Adjective: abnormalize; leave the beaten track, leave the beaten path; infringe a law, infringe a habit, infringe a usage, infringe a custom, break a law, break a habit, break a usage, break a custom, violate a law, violate a habit, violate a usage, violate a custom; drive a coach and six through; stretch a point; have no business there; baffle all description, beggar all description.

Undueness

Infringe, encroach, trench on, exact; arrogate, arrogate to oneself; give an inch and take an ell; stretch a point, strain a point; usurp, violate, do violence to.

Crosswords: Infringe

Books

• Poirot infringe la ley (reference)

  (more book examples)

Business

As transposed into Belgian law, even when the system does not influence trade among member states, a franchise unit may not infringe upon more than two of the following criteria. (references)

Remuneration paid to the in-country representative or agent should be appropriate and reasonable in accordance with applicable market practices and may not infringe upon the procurement interests of Taiwan military agencies. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tanzania

The Council serves as an adjudicating body when journalists infringe upon the voluntary code of ethics and has the power to impose fines. (references)

Mexico

State and municipal governments generally protect this right; however, some local officials infringe on religious freedom, especially in the south. (references)

Samoa

In July 2000, the Supreme Court ruled that the Village Fono Act may not be used to infringe upon villagers' freedom of religion, speech, assembly, or association. (references)

Economic History

New Zealand

Those who infringe on patent rights are liable for damages and other penalties. (references)

Jamaica

It also gives persons having rights in encrypted transmissions or in broadcasting or cable program services a right of action against persons who infringe on those rights. (references)

Korea

However, the U.S. pharmaceutical industry continues to be concerned about a lack of coordination between health/safety and IPR officials, allowing products that infringe existing patents to be approved for marketing. (references)

Human Rights

Russia

Authorities continued to infringe on citizens' privacy rights. (references)

China

The press regularly prints articles about officials who exceed their authority and infringe on citizens' rights. (references)

Bahrain

Nonetheless, the Government occasionally continued to infringe on citizens' right to privacy, although such reports declined significantly during the year. (references)

Political Economy

AUSTRIA

The delay may infringe U.S. investments. (references)

Indonesia

Security forces infringe on citizens' privacy rights. (references)

Singapore

The authorities sometimes infringe on citizens' privacy rights. (references)

Worker Rights

Costa Rica

Some trade union leaders contend that "solidarity" associations infringe upon the right of association. (references)

Slovak Republic

Unions supported amendments made to the Labor Code during the year; however, there were allegations that the amendments may infringe on the freedom of association for employees who are not union members. (references)

Ukraine

The law does not prohibit specifically strikes based on political demands; however, it prohibits strikes based on demands to change the constitutional order, state borders, or the administrative division of the country, as well as on demands that infringe on human rights. (references)

Expressions using "infringe": infringe a usage ♦ infringe on ♦ infringe upon. Additional references.

Albanian

shkel (backslide, break, contravene, disobey, encroach, entrench, evade, go back, impinge, make inroads into, muscle in, obtrude, offend, outrage, outrun, override, perambulate, poach, press, pull, step, trample, trample down, trample on, transgress, tread, tread on, trouble), prish (alloy, annul, baffle, blast, blow, botch, break, cancel, collapse, consume, corrode, corrupt, damn, darken, debase, debauch, deface, deflower, denounce, deprave, derogate, destroy, deteriorate, disarrange, disestablish, dissipate, dissolve, fester, fritter, frustrate, go, gum up, injure, mammock, mess, misguide, misspend, nip, obliterate, pervert, pollute, pull down, quash, queer, rot, ruin, shatter, sophisticate, spend, split, spoil, stymie, take away, thwack, trouble, undo, unmake, unsettle, upset, violate, vitiate, warp, wear, wreck, zap), nëpërkëmb (maltreat, mistreat), dhunoj (contravene, invade, outrage, rape, violate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كسر (breach, break, breakage, breaking, crash, crush, defeat, double, fold, fraction, fracture, fracturing, pleat, rout, shatter, shattering, smash, smashing, tuck, vanquish, violate), ‏خالف (be at odds with, dissent, fly in the face of, gainsay, transgress), ‏خرق (breach, break, breaking, infraction, infringement, pierce, puncture, rent, riddle, transgress, transgression, violation), ‏إنتهك حرمة (molest, poach, trespass, violate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

нарушавам границите, нарушавам (disobey, forswear, intrench, invade, outrage, outstep, poach, trouble, violate). (various references)

Chinese 

违犯 (Infringed, Infringing, Violate, violated, Violates, Violating). (various references)

Czech

znièit (annihilate, blast, demolish, destroy, devastate, devour, do for, do in, eat up, expunge, Mar, overthrow, overturn, ruin, smite, spoil, take out, wreck), porušit (blemish, break, disobey, disturb, upset, violate, vitiate), přestoupit (transgress, trespass). (various references)

Dutch

inbreuk maken op (commit an infringement upon, infringe upon), overtreden (commit an infringement upon, infringe upon). (various references)

Farsi 

تعدی (Abusive, Incursion, Inroad, Oppression), تخلف کردن از (Contravene, Transgress), تجاوزکردن از (Exceed, Overpass, Transgress). (various references)

Finnish

rikkoa (violate), loukata (violate). (various references)

French

enfreindre (commit an infringement upon, infringe upon). (various references)

German

verletzen (hurt, injure, bruise, offend, violate, wound). (various references)

Greek 

παραβαίνω (violate). (various references)

Hebrew 

להפר חוק, להסיג גבול (encroach, impinge, poach, trespass). (various references)

Hungarian

megszeg (to breach, to infringe, to transgress, to violate), áthág (to contravene, to infringe, to violate). (various references)

Indonesian

menyalahi, melanggar (encroachupon, offend, violate). (various references)

Italian

infrangere (break, dash, shatter, smash, violate), violare (violate), trasgredire (break, disobey, transgress, trespass), offendere (offend, abuse, insult), contravvenire a. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

背く (to disobey, to go against, to infringe, to run counter to), 権利を侵す (to infringe upon someone's right). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そむく (to disobey, to go against, to infringe, to run counter to), けんりをおかす (to infringe upon someone's right). (various references)

Korean 

위약하십시요. (various references)

Manx

cur stiagh er (annoy, call in, heckle, incommode, inconvenience, infringement, inroad, interference, interrupt, intervene, invade, invasion, molest, molestation). (various references)

Norwegian

overtre (contravene). (various references)

Pig Latin

infringeay.(various references)

Portuguese

infringir (violate), violar (violate, assault, profane), usurpar (usurp), traspassar, transgredir (break, contravene, outbreak, overpass, transgress, trespass, violate). (various references)

Romanian

viola (assault, break, force, infringe on, infringe upon, outrage, rape, ravish, violate), cãlca (break, calender, foot, go, hot-press, iron, mangle, press, smooth, step, tread, trespass, violate), încãlca (break, defy, impinge, infringe on, infringe upon, invade, overrun, poach, scorn, usurp, violate). (various references)

Russian 

нарушать (contravene, upset, violate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prekršiti (break, contravene, foul, offend, transgress, violate), posegnuti (impinge, reach), narušiti (disturb, violate), gaziti (step, tread, trudge, wade, walk). (various references)

Spanish

infringir (break, contravene, tear, tear up, throw over, transgress, trespass). (various references)

Swedish

kränka (outrage, violate), bryta (break, fracture). (various references)

Turkish

ihlal etmek (break, invade, trespass on, trespass upon, violate), tecâvüz etmek (abuse, aggress, assault, attack, break into, encroach, encroach on, entrench upon, impinge, interfere with, intrude, outrage, overstep, rape, ravish, shame, trench on, trench upon, trespass, violate), hakkını yemek (defraud), bozmak (quash), çiğnemek (break, champ, chew, chump, contravene, crunch, masticate, outrage, override, run down, run over, squelch, stamp, swamp, tramp, trample, trample down, transgress, violate). (various references)

Ukrainian

зазіхати (usurp), порушувати (break, bring up, contravene, dislocate, disobey, exceed, interrupt, pursue, sin, subvert, transgress). (various references)

delibor, infringere. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "infringe": infringed, infringement, infringements, infringer, infringers, infringes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Infringe" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Anfrage, enfringe, infinge, infrige, infring, intring. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: refining.

-1 letter: finnier, ginnier, reining.

-2 letters: finger, fining, firing, fringe, ginner.

-3 letters: feign, finer, genii, grief, infer, inner, iring, reign, renig, renin.

-4 letters: fern, fine, fire, firn, frig, gien, girn, grin, neif, nine, reif, rein, rife, ring.

-5 letters: eng, erg, ern, fen, fer, fie, fig, fin, fir, gen, gie, gin, inn, ire, ref, reg, rei, rif, rig.

+1 letter: fingering, friending, inferring, infringed, infringer, infringes, niffering, refinding.

+2 letters: befringing, fibrinogen, fingerings, fingerling, fingernail, infringers, redefining, refraining, reinfusing, reunifying.

+3 letters: antiforeign, befingering, befriending, coinferring, fibrinogens, fingerlings, fingernails, fingerprint, firefanging, frightening, gentrifying, infrangible, interfacing, interfering, interfiling, interfusing, predefining, refinancing, refinishing, reinfecting, reinflating, reinforcing, reinforming, renotifying, resinifying.

+4 letters: birefringent, centrifuging, denitrifying, differencing, fingerprints, fraternizing, freethinking, frenchifying, infringement, interfacings, interfolding, misinferring, personifying, prefinancing, prenotifying, reconfirming, refashioning, refurnishing, ungentrified.