encroach
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Is encroach a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of encroach?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete) to seize, appropriateobsoletetransitive
2. (intransitive) To intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory.Examples: "[D]rowſie drouping Age, / incroaching on apace, / With penſiue Plough will raze your hue / and Beauties beames deface."; "Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere."; "Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely, stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other."intransitive
3. (intransitive) To advance gradually beyond due limits.intransitive
noun (English)
1. (rare) Encroachment.Examples: "All that we see, all colours of all shade, By encroach of darkness made?"; "Shorey was among the most vociferous opponents of the encroach of scientism and utilitarianism in education and society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."rare
Definition source: Wiktionary