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Definition of Encroach
1. Verb. Advance beyond the usual limit.
Generic synonyms: Advance, Go On, March On, Move On, Pass On, Progress
Derivative terms: Encroacher, Encroachment, Encroachment, Infringement
2. Verb. Impinge or infringe upon. "This matter entrenches on other domains"
Generic synonyms: Take Advantage, Trespass
Derivative terms: Encroachment, Impingement, Impinging
Definition of Encroach
1. v. i. To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway.
2. n. Encroachment.
Definition of Encroach
1. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) to seize, appropriate ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) to intrude unrightfully on someone else's rights or territory ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive) to advance gradually beyond due limits ¹
4. Noun. (rare) Encroachment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Encroach
1. to advance beyond the proper limits [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Encroach
Literary usage of Encroach
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of the Trials of Colonel Aaron Burr (late Vice President of the by Harman Blennerhassett, Israel Smith, David Robertson, United States Circuit Court (4th circuit), Aaron Burr (1808)
"... he means this: that the jury might encroach 10OO miles on the rights of the
judges, rather than that the court should encroach a hair's breadth on the ..."
2. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"encroach, in French encroach- er, is compounded of en or in and crouch cringe
... encroach is often an imperceptible action, performed with such art as to ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"... to estab- 941 lish it," and "general liens are looked at with jealousy, because
they encroach upon the common law, and disturb the equal distribution of ..."
4. A History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft (1853)
"THE COLONIES OF FRANCE AND ENGLAND encroach MORE AND MORE ON THE RED MEN.
THE Tuscaroras changed their dwelling-place before CHAP the treaty of Utrecht was ..."
5. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1876)
"... the rest of the world meant increased fame and strength, from the ecclesiastical
side it meant only further subjection to a foreign encroach- power. ..."
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