infract

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfɹækt/

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From Latin īnfringō, past participle īnfractus. See infringe.

infract (third-person singular simple present infracts, present participle infracting, simple past and past participle infracted)

1. (transitive) To infringe, violate or disobey (a rule).
2. (transitive) To break off.

   infracted rock

• infraction

• infarct

From Latin īnfractus, from in- (“not”) + fractus (“broken”), past participle of fringō (“break”).

infract (not comparable)

1. Not broken or fractured; unharmed; whole.
   • 1612, George Chapman, Petrarch's Seven Penitential Psalams:

     a mind infract

• frantic, infarct