different between infringe vs obtrude

English

Alternative forms

• enfringe (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin infringere (“to break off, break, bruise, weaken, destroy”), from in (“in”) + frangere (“to break”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?f??nd?/

Verb

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

1. (transitive) Break or violate a treaty, a law, a right etc.
2. (intransitive) Break in or encroach on something.

Synonyms

(Break or violate a treaty, a law): transgress

Derived terms

• infringement
• infringer

Related terms

• infraction

Translations

Further reading

• infringe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• infringe in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• infringe at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Infinger, enfiring, refining

Latin

Verb

?nfringe

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ?nfring?

Portuguese

Verb

infringe

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of infringir
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of infringir

Spanish

Verb

infringe

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of infringir.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of infringir.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of infringir.

English

Etymology

From Latin obtr?d? (“thrust off or against”), from ob- (“ob-”) + tr?d? (“thrust”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?t?u?d/, /?b?t?u?d/

Verb

obtrude (third-person singular simple present obtrudes, present participle obtruding, simple past and past participle obtruded)

1. (transitive) To proffer (something) by force; to impose (something) on someone or into some area. [from 16th c.]
   • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:

     By which we may see, that they who are not called to Counsell, can have no good Counsell in such cases to obtrude.

   • 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South:

     It was unusual with Margaret to obtrude her own subject of conversation on others; but, in this case, she was so anxious to prevent Mr. Thornton from feeling annoyance at the words he had accidentally overheard, that it was not until she had done speaking that she coloured all over with consciousness […]

   • 2007, Andrew Martin, The Guardian, 16 Jul 2007:

     The prospect of people writing PhD theses that obtrude hard facts into the question of whether it's a) grim or b) nice up north is naturally worrying to all those of us who like to shout about those matters in the saloon bars of England.

2. (intransitive) To become apparent in an unwelcome way, to be forcibly imposed; to jut in, to intrude (on or into). [from 16th c.]
   • 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:

     Sometimes I dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden and living, obtruded through the coffin-chinks.

   • 1991, Roy Jenkins, A Life at the Centre:

     It was not only the police but the palace which obtruded on a home secretary's life.

   • 2010, Colin Greenland, The Guardian, 7 Aug 2010:

     In such a very chronological book, though, small anachronisms do obtrude.

3. (reflexive) To impose (oneself) on others; to cut in. [from 17th c.]
   • 1934, Winston Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, vol II:

     She obtruded herself upon the Queen; she protested her party views; she asked for petty favours, and attributed the refusals to the influence of Abigail.

   • 2004, Marc Abrahams, The Guardian, 13 Jan 2004:

     This scarcity of knowledge also obtruded itself in 1998, when three scientists in Wales published a report called "What Sort of Men Take Garlic Preparations?"

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 121:

     As 1968 began to ebb into 1969, however, and as “anticlimax” began to become a real word in my lexicon, another term began to obtrude itself.

Derived terms

• obtruder

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• debtour, doubter, outbred, redoubt, turboed

Latin

Verb

obtr?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of obtr?d?