Infringe vs Rupture - What's the difference?
infringe | rupture |
Break or violate a treaty, a law, a right etc.
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, title= Break in or encroach on something.
A burst, split, or break.
* Milton
A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
* E. Everett
(medicine) A break or tear in soft tissue, such as a muscle.
(engineering) A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
(intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
As verbs the difference between infringe and rupture
is that infringe is break or violate a treaty, a law, a right etc while rupture is (intransitive) to burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.As a noun rupture is
a burst, split, or break.infringe
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Alternative forms
* enfringeVerb
(en-verb)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.}}
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* infringement * infringerExternal links
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* ----rupture
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Noun
(en noun)- Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture , forth disclosed / Their callow young.
- He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.