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encroach English

Meaning encroach meaning

What does encroach mean?
Definitions in simple English

encroach Verb

— If you encroach, you intrude on a person's rights or territory.

encroach

— verb advance beyond the usual limit — verb (= impinge, entrench) impinge or infringe upon This impinges on my rights as an individual This matter entrenches on other domains

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encroach English » English

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Topics encroach topics

What do people use encroach to talk about?
Social behavior Behavior Do good to

Meddle

Conjugation encroach conjugation

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encroach · verb

Examples encroach examples

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Simple sentences

A good salesman will not encroach on his customer's time.

Movie subtitles

Only an undivided, legitimate throne, will save Moscow from her enemies and internecine conflict, without which the Tartars will again violate our frontiers, the Poles and the Livonians encroach.
No helicopters or police vehicles encroach on the stadium grounds.
But those who encroach upon the province of the gods. realize, too late, that the price for entrance. is destruction.
We encroach upon their habitat.
That's possible, but it's growing and it's started to encroach on his brain.
Well, they couldn't exactly encroach on our galaxy themselves without getting in a confrontation with the Ancients, right?
You gotta get in close enough to entice, but not so close as to encroach.
Because 'usurp upon' means to intrude or encroach upon.
More and more wildfires encroach on major cities.
You darest encroach upon my domain?! You've raised my frosty dander!
You're letting Elena encroach in my home, your job, my cake.
And tell me, why does the CBI continue to encroach on our jurisdiction?
Yeah, it dictates that if Li-Na takes hostages, we don't encroach.
I'm just concerned that your wedding planning has begun to encroach upon our business venture.
One ought not encroach on an Emperor's territory.
He can't encroach on a strong will.
All who dare to encroach upon this land will be beaten and driven out as has been done to the Jungars.
Well, they couldn't exactly encroach on our galaxy themselves without getting into a confrontation with the Ancients, right?
You gotta get in close enough to entice but not so close as to encroach.
Doesn't feel good to have somebody encroach on your job, does it?
Well, by god, I'm not going to encroach upon your woman's honor!
Exactly, and I know I didn't want to encroach on that side of your life, but I think, I honestly think that this would work.
They are planning to encroach entire land.
This is revenge for the fact that people from nezin encroach upon the sacred inviolability high mountains of Kashmir.
Now you fuckers are going to encroach on my business?
I'm not trying to threaten or encroach in any other way upon Rebecca.
I will never try to encroach, ever.
To encroach upon our lives yet again!
Ross sends his brotherinlaw to encroach upon our lives yet again!

News and current affairs

Elimination of Glass-Steagall then allowed commercial banks to encroach on the investment banks' other traditional preserves.
A second method has been to actively interfere and encroach upon village government affairs through higher-level township officials.
Russians are justified, I believe, in their view that the West took advantage of Russia's post-communist weakness to encroach on their country's historic space.
As long as governments do not encroach excessively on central-bank decision-making, this development will restore balance in policymaking and support policy coordination, particularly in times of stress.
Meanwhile, widespread pumping lowers the level of the entire aquifer, potentially allowing salt water to encroach.
Encirclement by a foreign power that threatens to encroach on what it considers to be its inalienable sovereign rights is bound to drive it to become a revolutionary power bent on upending the status quo.

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