Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to infringe
Participle: infringed
Gerund: infringing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | infringe |
| you | infringe |
| he;she;it | infringes |
| we | infringe |
| you | infringe |
| they | infringe |
Perfect
| I | have infringed |
| you | have infringed |
| he;she;it | has infringed |
| we | have infringed |
| you | have infringed |
| they | have infringed |
Past
| I | infringed |
| you | infringed |
| he;she;it | infringed |
| we | infringed |
| you | infringed |
| they | infringed |
Pluperfect
| I | had infringed |
| you | had infringed |
| he;she;it | had infringed |
| we | had infringed |
| you | had infringed |
| they | had infringed |
Future
| I | will infringe |
| you | will infringe |
| he;she;it | will infringe |
| we | will infringe |
| you | will infringe |
| they | will infringe |
Future Perfect
| I | will have infringed |
| you | will have infringed |
| he;she;it | will have infringed |
| we | will have infringed |
| you | will have infringed |
| they | will have infringed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | infringe |
| you | infringe |
| he;she;it | infringe |
| we | infringe |
| you | infringe |
| they | infringe |
Perfect
| I | have infringed |
| you | have infringed |
| he;she;it | have infringed |
| we | have infringed |
| you | have infringed |
| they | have infringed |
Imperfect
| I | infringed |
| you | infringed |
| he;she;it | infringed |
| we | infringed |
| you | infringed |
| they | infringed |
Pluperfect
| I | had infringed |
| you | had infringed |
| he;she;it | had infringed |
| we | had infringed |
| you | had infringed |
| they | had infringed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would infringe |
| you | would infringe |
| he;she;it | would infringe |
| we | would infringe |
| you | would infringe |
| they | would infringe |
Perfect
| I | would have infringed |
| you | would have infringed |
| he;she;it | would have infringed |
| we | would have infringed |
| you | would have infringed |
| they | would have infringed |
Imperative
| you | infringe |
| we | Let's infringe |
| you | infringe |
Verbs conjugated like 'infringe'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'infringe'
enfringe,
befringe,
fringe,
inbring,
refringe,
astringe,
becringe,
cringe,
enrange,
enridge,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1467, from L.
infringere "to damage, break off," from
in- "in" +
frangere "to break" (see fraction). Meaning of "encroach" first recorded c.1760.
2. Borrowed from Latin īnfringō, īnfringere (“to break off, break, bruise, weaken, destroy”), from in (“in”) + frangere (“to break”). See: Latin '
īnfringō'.
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: flout
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The patent situation, too, played a part in this, as often a firm sought to produce something which would achieve a given result, and yet not infringe a patent held by another; or a railway engineer would think of a device of his own that would free him of obligation to some manufacturer. [1951, T. S. Lascelles, “British Railway Signalling Since 1925”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 226:]
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According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle. [2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:]
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Near-synonym: impinge
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infringing on my personal freedom
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A well regulated Militia, being neceſsary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. [1789, Second Amendment to the United States Constitution:]