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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To infringe; violate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To break off; violate; interrupt.
  2. Unbroken; sound; whole.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To infringe, violate or disobey (a rule)

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.
  2. v. rare To break; to infringe.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

Etymologies

  1. 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.”

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  • “Chef Brown did not infract against this principle.”

    The Wall Street Journal: New England's November Delicacy

  • “Pupasse's doom seemed scarcely lightened; there was still a whole criminal code of conduct to infract.”

    Balcony Stories

  • “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?”

    Tom Cringle's Log

  • “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

  • “It's about permission - I (mods) can only infract - admins can do more - they have a slightly darker red to their names.”

    Ubuntu Forums

  • “Postoperative cardiologic examination revealed an acute myocardium infract.”

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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

  • “You should infract resign from office if you are going to back one of a known liar as for AIG brouhaha, and the bounces.”

    CNN Political Ticker

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