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Infringe vs Inviolable - What's the difference?

infringe | inviolable |

As a verb infringe

is break or violate a treaty, a law, a right etc.

As a adjective inviolable is

not violable; not to be infringed.

infringe

English

Alternative forms

* enfringe

Verb

(en-verb)
  • Break or violate a treaty, a law, a right etc.
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  • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.}}
  • Break in or encroach on something.
  • Synonyms

    transgress

    Derived terms

    * infringement * infringer

    Anagrams

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    inviolable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not violable; not to be infringed.
  • Not susceptible of violence, or of being profaned, corrupted, or dishonoured.
  • Incapable of being injured or invaded.
  • Derived terms

    * inviolability * inviolableness * inviolably

    Synonyms

    * (not violable) unbreakable, unbreachable * (not susceptible of being profaned) holy, sacred, sacrosanct * (incapable of being injured or invaded) invincible, unassailable

    Antonyms

    * (not violable) incompliable (incapable of being complied''); violable, breakable (''capable of being violated ) * (not susceptible of being profaned) violable * (incapable of being injured or invaded) invadable

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