Crossword-Solution: INFRINGE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Infringe | v. t. | To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract. |
| Infringe | v. t. | To hinder; to destroy; as, to infringe efficacy; to infringe delight or power. |
| Infringe | v. i. | To break, violate, or transgress some contract, rule, or law; to injure; to offend. |
| Infringe | v. i. | To encroach; to trespass; -- followed by on or upon; as, to infringe upon the rights of another. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
|---|---|---|
| INFRINGE | anagram | REFINING |
We have 50 clues for the answer “INFRINGE”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Step on one's toes | 1 answer |
| Limit a right or privilege | 1 answer |
| Break, as a law or agreement. | 1 answer |
| Trespass (upon). | 2 answers |
| Encroach (upon) | 3 answers |
| strike work | 3 answers |
| Work underground | 3 answers |
| Trespass (on) | 4 answers |
| Encroach (on) | 5 answers |
| be insolent | 6 answers |
| Do wrong | 7 answers |
| make inroads | 7 answers |
| overstep | 10 answers |
| infract | 10 answers |
| Disobey | 11 answers |
| impinge | 11 answers |
| Play up | 12 answers |
| Go too far | 13 answers |
| arrogate | 14 answers |
| Transgress | 15 answers |
| Entrench | 16 answers |
| interlope | 18 answers |
| ADVANCE against | 18 answers |
| confute | 21 answers |
| secede | 22 answers |
| ravish | 23 answers |
| Obtrude | 25 answers |
| Meddle | 29 answers |
| Encroach | 29 answers |
| contravene | 32 answers |
| Refute | 33 answers |
| Pirate | 37 answers |
| make liable | 39 answers |
| Infuriate | 39 answers |
| behave badly | 41 answers |
| Violate | 43 answers |
| borrow | 43 answers |
| Impose | 44 answers |
| deflower | 44 answers |
| usurp | 45 answers |
| Desecrate | 53 answers |
| Mis-behave | 54 answers |
| Offend | 55 answers |
| invade | 55 answers |
| Intrude | 58 answers |
| Steal | 64 answers |
| make known | 70 answers |
| Breach | 83 answers |
| Stray | 90 answers |
| Snap | 94 answers |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "INFRINGE"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
17 +2
New Suggestion for "INFRINGE"
Related word tools
Sentences with INFRINGE (5)
Imagine a traction line attempting such a reform here! There would be a riot, and the conductors hanged to the nearest trolley-poles in an hour! To prevent a citizen from crowding into an over-full vehicle, and stamping on its occupants in the process, would be to infringe one of his dearest privileges, not to mention his chance of riding free.
Flamson--a clown--who will, perhaps, shout--"I say he is no gentleman; for who can be a gentleman who keeps no gig?" The indifference exhibited by Lavengro for what is merely genteel, compared with his solicitude never to infringe the strict laws of honour, should read a salutary lesson.
The king also had discernment enough to perceive that Bruse, although slow to enter into an agreement, would promise nothing but what he intended to keep; but as to Thorfin when he had once made up his mind he went readily into every proposal and made no attempt to obtain any alteration of the king's first conditions: therefore the king had his suspicions that the earl would infringe the agreement.
Ignorant and illiterate people infringe the law because they do not know any better, and their acts of depredation are clumsy and can be easily found out, but when men of education commit crimes these are so skilfully planned and executed that it is difficult for the police to unravel and detect them.
CHAPTER XIX OF THE MANNER OF LENDING ALL OUR BOOKS TO STUDENTS It has ever been difficult so to restrain men by the laws of rectitude, that the astuteness of successors might not strive to transgress the bounds of their predecessors, and to infringe established rules in insolence of licence.
Quotes with INFRINGE (3)
If other people do not understand our behavior — so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being "asocial" or "irrational" in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to "explain," which usually implies that the explanation …
Every person should have the right to practice and believe what they want, as long as it does not infringe on another person’s freedom.
The greatest power one human being can exert over others is to control their perceptions of reality, and infringe on the integrity and individuality of their world. This is done in politics, in psychotherapy.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1955–2023).