Word Meanings - INFRINGEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution. The punishing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is. Clarendon.
Additional info about word: INFRINGEMENT
1. The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution. The punishing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is. Clarendon. 2. An encroachment on a patent, copyright, or other special privilege; a trespass.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INFRINGEMENT)
- Infraction
- Violation
- infringement
- breaking
- disturbance
- breach
- nonobservance
- Inroad
- Invasion
- raid
- incursion
- dragonnade
- irruption
- trespass
- Intrenchment
- Ditch
- dyke
- moat
- circumvallation
- encroachment
- Violence
- Vehemence
- impetuosity
- force
- rape
- outrage
- rage
- profanation
- injustice
- fury
- fierceness
- oppression
Related words: (words related to INFRINGEMENT)
- FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - 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 - BREAKABLE
Capable of being broken. - INJUSTICE
1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. - IMPETUOSITY
1. The condition or quality of being impetuous; fury; violence. 2. Vehemence, or furiousnes of temper. Shak. - DITCHER
One who digs ditches. - OPPRESSION
1. The act of oppressing, or state of being oppressed. 2. That which oppresses; a hardship or injustice; cruelty; severity; tyranny. "The multitude of oppressions." Job xxxv. 9. 3. A sense of heaviness or obstruction in the body or mind; - FORCEPS
The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies - VIOLENCE
1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force. That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me. Shak. All the elements - BREAKAWAY
A wild rush of sheep, cattle, horses, or camels (especially at the smell or the sight of water); a stampede. 2. An animal that breaks away from a herd. - INFRACTION
The act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law. I. Watts. - DISTURBANCE
The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil; - FORCEFUL
Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden. - DITCH
1. A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse. 2. Any long, - FORCEMENT
The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster. - NONOBSERVANCE
Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill. - BREAKDOWN
1. The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall. A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of the Southern United States, and so called, - OUTRAGE
To rage in excess of. Young. - IRRUPTION
1. A bursting in; a sudden, violent rushing into a place; as, irruptions of the sea. Lest evil tidings, with too rude irruption Hitting thy aged ear, should pierce too deep. Milton. 2. A sudden and violent inroad, or entrance of invaders; as, the - 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. - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - DEFORCEOR
See DEFORCIANT - OATHBREAKING
The violation of an oath; perjury. Shak - PEACEBREAKER
One who disturbs the public peace. -- Peace"break`ing, n. - UNDERDITCH
To dig an underground ditches in, so as to drain the surface; to underdrain; as, to underditch a field or a farm. - REENFORCE
To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. - DEFORCE
To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill. - UPBREAK
To break upwards; to force away or passage to the surface. - PERBREAK
See PARBREAK - OUTBREAK
A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection. "Mobs and outbreaks." J. H. Newman. The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shak.