infringe on or upon

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of INFRINGE

to fail to keep <a law that was struck down by the court for infringing upon the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution>

Synonyms breach, break, contravene, fracture, infringe, offend, traduce, transgress

Related Words disobey, rebel; blow off, brush (off), disregard, flout, ignore, neglect, overlook, overpass, pass over, slight, tune out, wink (at); dismiss, pooh-pooh (also pooh), scorn, shrug off; defy, resist, withstand

Near Antonyms defer (to), serve, submit (to), surrender (to), yield (to); attend, hear, heed, listen (to), mark, note, notice, regard, watch

Antonyms comply (with), conform (to), follow, mind, obey, observe

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