Impinge vs Transgress - What's the difference?
impinge | transgress | Synonyms |
To make a physical impact (on); to collide, to crash (upon).
* , vol.1, New York Review Books, 2001, p.287:
(figuratively) To interfere with; to encroach (on, upon).
*
To have an effect upon; to limit.
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* Dryden
To act in violation of some law.
* Milton
To commit an offense; to sin.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.
Impinge is a synonym of transgress.
As verbs the difference between impinge and transgress
is that impinge is to push (transitive: apply a force to (an object) so that it moves away), thrust, shove while transgress is to exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.impinge
English
Verb
(imping)- The ordinary rocks upon which such men do impinge and precipitate themselves, are cards, dice, hawks, and hounds […].
Lord Stranleigh Abroad, passage=“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. …”}}
Usage notes
* The transitive use is less common, not included in many small dictionaries, and not favored by Garner's Modern American Usage (2009).Derived terms
* impingement * impingent * impingertransgress
English
Verb
(es)- surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law
- For man will hearken to his glozing lies, / And easily transgress the sole command.
- Why give you peace to this imperate beast / That hath so long transgressed you?