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[ UK /ɛnkɹˈə‍ʊt‍ʃ/ ]
[ US /ɪnˈkɹoʊtʃ/ ]
VERB
  1. impinge or infringe upon
    This matter entrenches on other domains
    This impinges on my rights as an individual
  2. advance beyond the usual limit

How To Use encroach In A Sentence

  • After her 19th birthday her thrice - divorced manager, afraid that her encroaching adulthood might impede her careerist progress, began to woo her.
  • She has no right to encroach on my time.
  • Huge towers grew into the sky, as the countryside gradually encroached on the city outskirts.
  • From the Whiskey Rebellion to the Know-Nothings to the reborn Militias of the 1990s, the eastern establishment has always had reason to fear the expression of a certain kind of cussed American individualism that rebels against what it sees as the encroachments of the state. Obama's Culture War
  • There was no one at the beamdown point, which was close to where the undetectable barrier kept the swamp from encroaching on the habitat, but there was a road nearby that took them to the village in less than half an hour's walk. The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students)
  • Council was addressing an application made for approval of a retaining wall that encroaches onto the boulevard.
  • The developers also plan to prohibit further land encroachment along the banks of the canal.
  • In these, as in the Crinoids, the interambulacral plates are absent, and the interambulacral spaces are filled by an encroachment of the ab-oral region upon them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862
  • We will never allow anybody to encroach upon China's territorial integrity and sovereignty.
  • If you are in love, anyone encroaching on your territory will prompt insecurity. Times, Sunday Times
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