Usually means: Invaded or intruded upon someone's territory.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word encroached:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. encroached: Merriam-Webster
  2. encroached: Collins English Dictionary
  3. encroached: Vocabulary.com
  4. encroached: Wordnik
  5. encroached: Wiktionary
  6. Encroached, encroached: Dictionary.com
  7. encroached: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Encroached: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Encroached: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. encroached: FreeDictionary.org
  11. encroached: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. encroached: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. encroached: Legal dictionary

(Note: See encroach as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (encroach)

verb:  (transitive, obsolete) to seize, appropriate
verb:  (intransitive) to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
verb:  (intransitive) to advance gradually beyond due limits
noun:  (rare) Encroachment.
▸ Also see encroach


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