encroach

verb · nounB1

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

encroaches

V_ing/Gerund

encroaching

V_ed/pp

encroachedincroach

1.
(obsolete, transitive)to seize, appropriate
2.
(intransitive)To intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory.
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.
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.
Đồng nghĩa: infringe
3.
(intransitive)To advance gradually beyond due limits.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

encroaches

1.
(rare)Encroachment.

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encroachableencroacherencroachmentunencroachableunencroached

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From Middle English encrochen, from Old French encrochier (to seize), from Old French en- + croc (hook), of Germanic - origin. More at crook.