INFRINGED Synonyms: 37 Similar and Opposite Words

infringed

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past tense of infringe

as in violated

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In January, the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights concluded that the school violated Title IX over athletic participation, facilities and its response to complaints.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Unless disclosed to and approved by the US government and reported on his tax returns, Kushner’s access to the Alpha account may have violated US law.

— Matthew Cole, Vanity Fair, 22 Oct. 2026

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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

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These young people have defied prohibitions on protest, breached draconian security clampdowns, and endured detentions to relentlessly question the government’s authority.

— Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026
Following a string of incidents where AI models hacked websites and breached government systems during testing phases, the Federal Trade Commission is officially probing Anthropic and OpenAI over consumer harms, an insider told Axios.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026

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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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At these incandescent parties, Trakata founder Tani Shimizu, a 26-year-old trans man, can be found entrenched on the dance floor, often perreando with one or more beautiful, curly-haired femmes.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
As a result, as the war has become entrenched, in particular since 2024, Moscow has shifted its focus to more advanced ballistic salvo waves, including strikes using Russia’s intermediate-range Oreshnik ballistic missile.

— Dmitry Adamsky, Foreign Affairs, 21 Oct. 2026

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