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Infringe vs Rupture - What's the difference?

infringe | rupture |

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

English

Alternative forms

* enfringe

Verb

(en-verb)
  • Break or violate a treaty, a law, a right etc.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , 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

    * ----

    rupture

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A burst, split, or break.
  • * Milton
  • Hatch from the egg, that soon, / Bursting with kindly rupture , forth disclosed / Their callow young.
  • A social breach or break, between individuals or groups.
  • * E. Everett
  • He knew that policy would disincline Napoleon from a rupture with his family.
  • (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.
  • Verb

    (ruptur)
  • (intransitive) To burst, break through, or split, as under pressure.
  • See also

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