Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To infringe; violate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.
- v. rare To break; to infringe.
WordNet 3.0
- v. act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
Etymologies
- Latin īnfringere, īnfrāct-, to destroy; see infringe. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“What pleased him to no end was his right to punish anyone daring to infract upon the rules.”
“Chef Brown did not infract against this principle.”
“Pupasse's doom seemed scarcely lightened; there was still a whole criminal code of conduct to infract.”
“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
“But he will never venture to infract the neutrality of the waters surely," rejoined I, "within sight of the squadron too?”
“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.”
“It's about permission - I (mods) can only infract - admins can do more - they have a slightly darker red to their names.”
“Postoperative cardiologic examination revealed an acute myocardium infract.”
“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.”
“You should infract resign from office if you are going to back one of a known liar as for AIG brouhaha, and the bounces.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘infract’.
-
fight
words for fighting
( open list, randomness )bout, fight, match, smackdown, blue, stoush, battle, clash, fuss, fray, ruckus, tussle and 115 more...
-
Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
-
Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for infract.

Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.