infringed

verb

past tense of infringe
1
as in violated

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as in invaded

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infringed
  1. violated
  2. invaded
  3. breached
  4. impinged
  5. intruded
  6. entrenched
Verb
  • In a victory for the journalists, Kelly expanded a previous, temporary ruling that the administration had violated the news outlets' Fifth Amendment right to due process.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Nevertheless, even if the amendments had met the threshold and passed, the WIAA cannot implement a policy that is in violation of Washington state law and the amendments proposed would have violated state law.
    — Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of violated
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  • In 2014, Russia invaded Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, and Western banks pulled back on lending to Russians.
    — Nathan Heller, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Romania first shot down drones this year, marking its first such action since Moscow invaded neighboring Ukraine.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of invaded
Verb
  • Sherfane Rutherford scored 49 not out off 26 balls to provide the final flourish, hitting four fours and three sixes, as West Indies breached 200.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
  • Then one of them got robbed In January 2025, Gravy Analytics was breached.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of breached
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  • The legal case, decided at an emergency hearing in a Los Angeles courthouse on Monday morning, was brought by an Iranian fan who said FIFA’s block impinged freedom of speech, but the judge rejected that argument.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • Kurtz’s attorneys argued police lacked probable cause to obtain the information and impinged on his privacy rights.
    — Mark Scolforo, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2026
Definition of impinged
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  • The judge concluded that the policy violated federal law and intruded on authority Congress had left with the states.
    — Thom Reilly, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2026
  • This week, an ethical question, of all things, intruded into the baseball playoffs.
    — Scott Simon, NPR, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of intruded
Verb
  • The index has lost almost 40% since its June high and is firmly entrenched in bear market.
    — Justina Lee,Sean Conlon, CNBC, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Beth Hammack, who heads the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank, worries the cumulative effect of these shocks could make inflation more entrenched.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of entrenched
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