encroach — Englisches Wörterbuch

Verb

1. to seize, appropriate

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch
   • transitiv

2. To intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory.

   Gebrauch

   • intransitiv

   Synonyme

   infringepoach

   Beispiele

   [D]rowſie drouping Age, / incroaching on apace, / With penſiue Plough will raze your hue / and Beauties beames deface.

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   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.

   Weitere Beispiele (3)

   I won’t encroach on your time any longer.

   He never allows work to encroach upon his family life.

   Gradually the negative feelings encroached into her work.

3. To advance gradually beyond due limits.

   Gebrauch

   • intransitiv

Substantiv

1. Encroachment.

   Gebrauch

   • selten

   Beispiele

   All that we see, all colours of all shade, By encroach of darkness made?

   Weitere Beispiele (1)

   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.

Verb

1. advance beyond the usual limit

   Synonyme

   infringeimpinge

   Oberbegriffe

   advanceprogresspass onmove onmarch ongo on

2. impinge or infringe upon

   Synonyme

   impingeentrenchtrench

   Oberbegriffe

   trespasstake advantage

   Beispiele

   This impinges on my rights as an individual

   This matter entrenches on other domains