Encroach

Verb

 * 1)  to seize, appropriate
 * 2)  to intrude unrightfully on someone else's rights or territory
 * 3) * 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 252d.
 * Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely, stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other.
 * 1)  to advance gradually beyond due limits

Noun

 * 1)  Encroachment.
 * 2) * 1805, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘What is Life?’:
 * All that we see, all colours of all shade, / By encroach of darkness made?
 * 1) * 2002, Caroline Winterer, The Culture of Classicism, JHU Press 2002, p. 116:
 * 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.

Adverbs for Encroach
steadily; progressively; unconsciously; brazenly; perpetually; aggressively; belligerently; martially; pugnaciously.

Thesaurus
abuse a privilege, adopt, advance upon, appropriate, arrogate, assume, barge in, bother, break bounds, break in, break in upon, burst in, bust in, butt in, charge in, come between, crash, crash in, crash the gates, creep in, crowd in, cut in, edge in, elbow in, encroach upon, entrench, foist in, go too far, horn, horn in, impinge, impose, impose on, impose upon, inconvenience, infiltrate, infringe, insinuate, interfere, interlope, interpose, intervene, intrude, invade, irrupt, know no bounds, make an inroad, make free with, obtrude, obtrude upon, overstep, overstep the bounds, play God, press in, presume on, presume upon, pretend to, push in, put on, put upon, rush in, seize, slink in, slip in, smash in, sneak in, squeeze in, steal in, storm in, take a liberty, take liberties, take over, throng in, thrust in, transgress, trench, trespass, trouble, usurp, work in, worm in

Etymology
From encrochier:, from en-: + croc:.

Verb

 * Arabic: يختلس
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 侵入
 * Czech: zasahovat
 * Danish: krænke
 * Dutch: binnendringen
 * Finnish:
 * German:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 侵入
 * Korean: 침입
 * Polish: naruszać
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, вторгнуться , посягать , посягнуть
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish: tunkeutua


 * German:

Derived terms

 * encroacher
 * encroachment

Noun

 * Finnish: kajoaminen