Definizione monolingua

encroach

encroach (third-person singular simple present encroaches, present participle encroaching, simple past and past participle encroached)

1. (transitive, obsolete) to seize, appropriate
2. (intransitive) to intrude unrightfully on someone elses rights or territory
   • 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.

3. (intransitive) to advance gradually beyond due limits

encroach (plural encroaches)

1. (rare) Encroachment.
   • 1805, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘What is Life?’:

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

   • 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.

Definizione dizionario encroach

	invadere
	to intrude unrightfully on someone else's rights or territory

abusare

usurpare

Altri significati:

(rare) Encroachment.

(intransitive) to advance gradually beyond due limits

to advance gradually beyond due limits

(transitive, obsolete) to seize, appropriate

(intransitive) to intrude unrightfully on someone else's rights or territory