Usually means: Advancing beyond established boundaries or limits.
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  1. encroaching: Merriam-Webster
  2. encroaching: Collins English Dictionary
  3. encroaching: Vocabulary.com
  4. Encroaching, encroaching: Wordnik
  5. encroaching: Wiktionary
  6. Encroaching, encroaching: Dictionary.com
  7. encroaching: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  8. Encroaching: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Encroaching: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. encroaching: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. encroaching: FreeDictionary.org
  12. encroaching: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. encroaching: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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▸ adjective:  That encroaches.

Similar:
intrusive, trespassing, invasive, ensnaring, overgird, ingressing, ingoing, pitfalling, engirt, stifling, more...

Opposite:
receding, retreating, ebbing

Types:
invasive, invasive species, invasive plant, invasive insect, invasive fungus, invasive animal, more...

Phrases:
encroaching belligerent, more...

Adjectives:
more, daily, further, long, least, latter, hourly, generous, ever, possible, scoriaceous

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Similar:
intrusive, trespassing, invasive, ensnaring, overgird, ingressing, ingoing, pitfalling, engirt, stifling, more...

Opposite:
receding, retreating, ebbing

Types:
invasive, invasive species, invasive plant, invasive insect, invasive fungus, invasive animal, more...

Phrases:
encroaching belligerent, more...

Adjectives:
more, daily, further, long, least, latter, hourly, generous, ever, possible, scoriaceous

Colors:
    charcoal,     graphite,     onyx,     obsidian,     midnight, more...



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