Synonyms of the word

infringe

• v. (transitive) Break or violate a treaty, a law, a right etc.
• v. (intransitive) Break in or encroach on something.

advance

• v. To bring forward; to move towards the front; to make to go on.
• v. (obsolete) To raise; to elevate.
• v. To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
• v. To accelerate the growth or progress of; to further; to forward; to help on; to aid; to heighten.
• v. To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
• v. To make earlier, as an event or date; to hasten.
• v. To furnish, as money or other value, before it becomes due, or in aid of an enterprise; to supply beforehand.
• v. To raise to a higher point; to enhance; to raise in rate.
• v. (intransitive) To move forwards, to approach.
• v. (obsolete) To extol; to laud.
• n. A forward move; improvement or progression.
• n. An amount of money or credit, especially given as a loan, or paid before it is due; an advancement.
• n. An addition to the price; rise in price or value.
• n. (in the plural) An opening approach or overture, especially of an unwelcome or sexual nature.
• adj. Completed before need or a milestone event.
• adj. Preceding.
• adj. Forward.

breach

• n. A gap or opening made by breaking or battering, as in a wall, fortification or levee; the space between…
• n. A breaking up of amicable relations, a falling-out.
• n. A breaking of waters, as over a vessel or a coastal defence; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
• n. A breaking out upon; an assault.
• n. (archaic) A bruise; a wound.
• n. (archaic) A hernia; a rupture.
• n. (law) A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment.
• n. (figuratively) A difference in opinions, social class etc.
• n. The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
• v. (transitive) To make a breach in.
• v. (transitive) To violate or break.
• v. (transitive, nautical, of the sea) To break into a ship or into a coastal defence.
• v. (intransitive, of a whale) To leap clear out of the water.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

conflict

• n. A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
• n. An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
• v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.
• v. (intransitive, with ‘with’) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.

contravene

• v. (transitive) To act contrary to an order, or fail to conform to a regulation.
• v. (transitive) To deny the truth of something.

encroach

• v. (transitive, obsolete) to seize, appropriate.
• v. (intransitive) to intrude unrightfully on someone else's rights or territory.
• v. (intransitive) to advance gradually beyond due limits.
• n. (rare) Encroachment.

impinge

• v. (transitive, now rare) To make a physical impact (on); to collide, to crash (upon).
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To interfere with; to encroach (on, upon).
• v. (intransitive) To have an effect upon; to limit.

infract

• v. (transitive) To infringe, violate or disobey (a rule).
• adj. Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.

offend

• v. (transitive) To hurt the feelings of; to displease; to make angry; to insult.
• v. (intransitive) To feel or become offended, take insult.
• v. (transitive) To physically harm, pain.
• v. (transitive) To annoy, cause discomfort or resent.
• v. (intransitive) To sin, transgress divine law or moral rules.
• v. (transitive) To transgress or violate a law or moral requirement.
• v. (obsolete, transitive, archaic, biblical) To cause to stumble; to cause to sin or to fall.

progress

• n. Movement or advancement through a series of events, or points in time; development through time.
• n. Specifically, advancement to a higher or more developed state; development, growth.
• n. An official journey made by a monarch or other high personage; a state journey, a circuit.
• n. (now rare) A journey forward; travel.
• n. Movement onwards or forwards or towards a specific objective or direction; advance.
• v. (intransitive) to move, go, or proceed forward; to advance.
• v. (intransitive) to improve; to become better or more complete.
• v. (transitive) To move (something) forward; to advance, to expedite.

transgress

• v. (transitive) To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
• v. (transitive) To act in violation of some law.
• v. (intransitive, construed with against) To commit an offense; to sin.
• v. (intransitive, of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.

violate

• v. (sometimes computing) To break, disregard, disagree or not act according to (rules, conventions, etc.).
• v. (euphemistic) To rape.