ENCROACH meaning: Invade or intrude upon space

We found 36 dictionaries that define the word encroach:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

encroach: Merriam-Webster
encroach: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
encroach: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
encroach: Collins English Dictionary
encroach: Vocabulary.com
encroach: Wordnik
encroach: Wiktionary
encroach: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
encroach: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
encroach: Infoplease Dictionary
encroach: Dictionary.com
encroach: Online Etymology Dictionary
encroach: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Encroach: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Encroach: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
encroach: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
encroach: Rhymezone
encroach: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
encroach: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
encroach: FreeDictionary.org
encroach: Mnemonic Dictionary
encroach: TheFreeDictionary.com
encroach: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (8 matching dictionaries)

encroach: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
encroach: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
encroach: Law.com Dictionary
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Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
encroach: Legal dictionary
encroach: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

encroach: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

encroach: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

encroach: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ 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.

Similar:

impinge, infringe, trench, incroach, Sease, seize, ingrapple, apprehend, emburse, beclip, more...

Opposite:

encroachment

Types:

infringe, intrude, usurp, trespass, invade, more...

Phrases:

encroach upon, encroach on, more...

Adjectives:

latter, least, wise, last, definite, future, old, fresh, rich, such, japanese

Colors:

gray, dark green, olive, charcoal, taupe, more...