encroach — Słownik języka angielskiego

Czasownik

1. to seize, appropriate

   Użycie

   • wyszłe z użycia
   • przechodnie

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

   Użycie

   • nieprzechodnie

   Synonimy

   infringepoach

   Przykłady

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

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   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.

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   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.

   Użycie

   • nieprzechodnie

Rzeczownik

1. Encroachment.

   Użycie

   • rzadkie

   Przykłady

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

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   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.

Czasownik

1. advance beyond the usual limit

   Synonimy

   infringeimpinge

   Terminy szersze

   advanceprogresspass onmove onmarch ongo on

2. impinge or infringe upon

   Synonimy

   impingeentrenchtrench

   Terminy szersze

   trespasstake advantage

   Przykłady

   This impinges on my rights as an individual

   This matter entrenches on other domains