To encroach is to overstep your bounds, to take over space or rights that belong to another, like your brother whose mess always encroaches on your side of the room you share.
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;
Verb
advance beyond the usual limit
Verb
impinge or infringe upon; "This impinges on my rights as an individual"; "This matter entrenches on other domains"
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.
n.
Encroachment.
Encroach
No sense, faculty, or member must encroach upon or interfere with the duty and office of another.
Superstition, . . . a creeping and encroaching evil.
Exclude the encroaching cattle from thy ground.
Encroach
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;
Encroachment.
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