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disobey

English

Etymology

From Old French desobeir

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /d?s.??be?/
  • Rhymes: -e?

Verb

disobey (third-person singular simple present disobeys, present participle disobeying, simple past and past participle disobeyed)

  1. (transitive) To refuse or (intentionally) fail to obey an order of (somebody).
  2. (intransitive) To refuse or (intentionally) fail to obey.

Antonyms

  • obey

Related terms

  • disobedient
  • disobedience

Translations

Anagrams

  • sideboy

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infract

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?f?ækt/

Etymology 1

Latin ?nfring?, past participle ?nfractus. See infringe.

Verb

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.
Related terms
  • infraction
See also
  • infarct

Etymology 2

Latin ?nfractus, from in- (not) + fractus (broken), past participle of fring? (break).

Adjective

infract (not comparable)

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

Anagrams

  • frantic, infarct

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