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infringing

infringing is the present participle and gerund of infringe.

Meaning of infringe

Verb

infringe (third-person singular simple present infringes, present participle infringing, simple past and past participle infringed)

  1. (transitive) To break or violate a treaty, a law, a right, etc.
    • Near-synonyms: flout, infract
    Synonyms:
    flout, infract
  2. (intransitive) To break in or encroach on something.
    • Near-synonym: impinge
    Synonyms:
    impinge
  3. (dated, transitive) To furnish or embellish with a fringe.

Adjective

infringing (comparative more infringing, superlative most infringing)

  1. violative
    • …it is infringing to offer abroad a process which either consitutes an infringement…2021, Paul England, Simon Cohen, A User's Guide to Intellectual Property in Life Sciences
    • Plaintiff further alleges that it is not so infringing, that such patent is invalid…1953, Federal Supplement - Volume 111

Forms of infringing

comparativemore infringing
superlativemost infringing

Origin of infringing

From infringe + -ing.

Words formed from infringing

Questions about infringing

What does infringing mean?
Infringing means violative.
What is infringing the present participle and gerund of?
Infringing is the present participle and gerund of infringe.
What part of speech is infringing?
Infringing is an adjective.

Words near infringing in the dictionary

  1. infringers
  2. infringes
  3. infringest
  4. infringeth
  5. infringible
  6. infringing
  7. infringingly
  8. infront
  9. infront of
  10. infructescence
  11. infructescences

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Adapted from Wiktionary: infringing (page history and authors); infringe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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