INFRINGED Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

infringed

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past tense of infringe

as in violated

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The department said the detectives who reported the affair violated three policies for conducting an unauthorized investigation and their use of Flock.

— Kelsy Mittauer, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
Grisham alleged in the new lawsuit filed July 7 that Miller dragged her name into his dispute with Moreno and violated their agreement not to disparage each other.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of violated

Verb

Many invasive plants have invaded natural areas from gardens.

— Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026
None of Argentina’s players had been born when the country’s military dictatorship invaded the Malvinas in 1982, holding the islands for 73 days before British forces recaptured them in a war that killed 649 Argentine and 255 British troops.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 July 2026

Definition of invaded

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According to The Information, which first reported on the incident, Meta’s AI model breached an unnamed company’s systems and made changes to its internal system.

— Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 5 Aug. 2026
Her entire face got licked clean off her head when suburban floodwaters breached the cardboard hull protecting Kath’s basement memorabilia stack a few months before I was born.

— Claire Carusillo, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 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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If the bill becomes law and the county challenges it, Pio Roda said county attorneys could argue that the state had improperly intruded into a local matter.

— Kyle Martin, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
So the familiarity of my story with John sometimes intruded into what was supposed to be this fairy tale.

— Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 28 June 2026

Definition of intruded

Verb

Women’s lack of body literacy and what we are taught from a young age about enduring pain, both directly and overtly, is widespread and deeply entrenched.

— Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 30 July 2026
Darlington’s annual Southern 500 is entrenched on Labor Day weekend, and that race sliding back as the regular-season finale is solely due to how the calendar falls next year.

— Jordan Bianchi, New York Times, 30 July 2026

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