Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To infringe; violate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To break off; violate; interrupt.
- Unbroken; sound; whole.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To break; to infringe.
- adjective obsolete Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
infringe ,violate ordisobey (a rule)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What pleased him to no end was his right to punish anyone daring to infract upon the rules.
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What pleased him to no end was his right to punish anyone daring to infract upon the rules.
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Chef Brown did not infract against this principle.
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Pupasse's doom seemed scarcely lightened; there was still a whole criminal code of conduct to infract.
Balcony Stories Grace E. King
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Others were made by hitching suffixes to nouns, or by groping for roots, e. g., to deputize, to locate, to legislate, to infract, to compromit and to happify.
Chapter 2. The Beginnings of American. 3. New Words of English Material Henry Louis 1921
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"But he will never venture to infract the neutrality of the waters surely," rejoined I, "within sight of the squadron too?"
Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812
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It's about permission - I (mods) can only infract - admins can do more - they have a slightly darker red to their names.
Ubuntu Forums ubunterooster 2010
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Postoperative cardiologic examination revealed an acute myocardium infract.
BioMed Central - Latest articles John Kalaitzis 2010
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Those who ate mostly Mediterranean foods were found to have thirty six percent fewer areas of brain damage from cerebral infract compared to individuals who followed the diet less strictly.
Emaxhealth Kathleen Blanchard RN 2010
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This fact, though, is also indisputable: At the time he was pulled over that night, Scott was suffering from multiple strokes-technically an acute left thalamic infract, as well as a tiny left cerebellar hemispheric acute infarct-that rendered him unable to drive safely, confused to the point of incomprehensibility.
Boise Weekly 2009
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