Encroach
verb
Gradually and secretly take another's rights or property.
He was accused of trying to encroach on the farmer's land.
Often appears as...
- encroach on someone's rights
- encroach on someone's territory
verb
Advance gradually in a way that causes damage or reduces effectiveness.
Over past years, the desert encroached on fertile areas causing a severe food crisis.
Often appears as...
- encroach on habitats
- encroach on fertile land
Usage tips
Academic
verb
Impinge or infringe upon.
Such actions could encroach on freedom of speech.
Often appears as...
- encroach on freedom
- encroach on individual rights
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Academic
verb
Gradually and secretly take another's rights or property.
He was accused of trying to encroach on the farmer's land.
Often appears as...
- encroach on someone's rights
- encroach on someone's territory
verb
Advance gradually in a way that causes damage or reduces effectiveness.
Over past years, the desert encroached on fertile areas causing a severe food crisis.
Often appears as...
- encroach on habitats
- encroach on fertile land
Usage tips
Academic
verb
Impinge or infringe upon.
Such actions could encroach on freedom of speech.
Often appears as...
- encroach on freedom
- encroach on individual rights
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Subtle Intrusion
Suggests a slow, often unnoticed interference in someone's affairs or property.
New surveillance cameras can encroach on our daily privacy without us realizing.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Generally viewed negatively, as it implies taking what isn't yours.
He began to encroach on his neighbor's land, planting trees beyond his property line.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Boundaries
Used in contexts where personal or legal boundaries are at risk.
Inviting herself over daily, she started to encroach on his personal space.
Pro Tip 1/3Subtle Intrusion
Suggests a slow, often unnoticed interference in someone's affairs or property.
New surveillance cameras can encroach on our daily privacy without us realizing.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Generally viewed negatively, as it implies taking what isn't yours.
He began to encroach on his neighbor's land, planting trees beyond his property line.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Boundaries
Used in contexts where personal or legal boundaries are at risk.
Inviting herself over daily, she started to encroach on his personal space.
Pro Tip 1/3Subtle Intrusion
Suggests a slow, often unnoticed interference in someone's affairs or property.
New surveillance cameras can encroach on our daily privacy without us realizing.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Generally viewed negatively, as it implies taking what isn't yours.
He began to encroach on his neighbor's land, planting trees beyond his property line.
Pro Tip 3/3Personal Boundaries
Used in contexts where personal or legal boundaries are at risk.
Inviting herself over daily, she started to encroach on his personal space.
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3 myths about the future...
But resolving the intelligence myth shows us that that first force, machine substitution, is gathering strength. Machines, of course, can't do everything, but they can do far more, encroaching ever deeper into the realm of tasks performed by human beings. What's more, there's no reason to think
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‘Paris to Pittsburgh’ -...
even with the president pulling us out of one of the most important treaties when every other major country in the world has said, we are gonna come together and commit to dealing with climate change. CHRIS I continue to be shocked at how close the water has being encroaching just on the beach.
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Endangered Penguins of...
likes to eat and more recently the major threats have been habitat encroachment people and then also the major depletion of fish in the sea and so a lack of new homes we do have a major problem with there not being an efficiency and that affects the whole life cycle of the
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What is schizophrenia? -...
that have similar symptoms but varying causes. Every person with schizophrenia has slightly different symptoms, and the first signs can be easy to miss— subtle personality changes, irritability, or a gradual encroachment of unusual thoughts.
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Alaska Brown Bear...
researchers with some of the most intimate pictures ever captured of bear life in the depths of the forest a rare look into the private life things might not remain quite some cozy for the ground a for long humans are encroaching on their
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Thought-provoking...
what's happened the reason that they're so freaked out is that they've heard calls of the neighboring community so that means that their neighbors might be actually encroaching on their territory and now i think what they're going to do
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Why bats don't get sick...
in their ecosystems, like helping with pollination and seed dispersal, and consuming pests and insects. To protect these animals from harm, and ourselves from infection, humans need to stop encroaching on bat habitats and ecosystems.
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Reclaiming Syria’s story...
thousands of people have been evacuated and today is split into two zones one occupied by the regime and one occupied by the opposition its residents suffer from periodic aerial bombardment from the regime and encroaching Isis on
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Safari Live - Day 380 PIPE...
his habitat team or cutting out but so I don't feel too bad smashing them from time to time because they are encroaching as I said okay I'm just gonna pull over on the side yeah so we can show everybody the Lions first
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Rehabilitating Baby...
the forest is very much alive but this life is under threat the wildlife is impacted because of the plantations because of farming and because of human encroachment in a year
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3 myths about the future...
But resolving the intelligence myth shows us that that first force, machine substitution, is gathering strength. Machines, of course, can't do everything, but they can do far more, encroaching ever deeper into the realm of tasks performed by human beings. What's more, there's no reason to think
Video examples
‘Paris to Pittsburgh’ -...
even with the president pulling us out of one of the most important treaties when every other major country in the world has said, we are gonna come together and commit to dealing with climate change. CHRIS I continue to be shocked at how close the water has being encroaching just on the beach.
Video examples
Endangered Penguins of...
likes to eat and more recently the major threats have been habitat encroachment people and then also the major depletion of fish in the sea and so a lack of new homes we do have a major problem with there not being an efficiency and that affects the whole life cycle of the
Video examples
What is schizophrenia? -...
that have similar symptoms but varying causes. Every person with schizophrenia has slightly different symptoms, and the first signs can be easy to miss— subtle personality changes, irritability, or a gradual encroachment of unusual thoughts.
Video examples
Alaska Brown Bear...
researchers with some of the most intimate pictures ever captured of bear life in the depths of the forest a rare look into the private life things might not remain quite some cozy for the ground a for long humans are encroaching on their
Video examples
Thought-provoking...
what's happened the reason that they're so freaked out is that they've heard calls of the neighboring community so that means that their neighbors might be actually encroaching on their territory and now i think what they're going to do
Video examples
Why bats don't get sick...
in their ecosystems, like helping with pollination and seed dispersal, and consuming pests and insects. To protect these animals from harm, and ourselves from infection, humans need to stop encroaching on bat habitats and ecosystems.
Video examples
Reclaiming Syria’s story...
thousands of people have been evacuated and today is split into two zones one occupied by the regime and one occupied by the opposition its residents suffer from periodic aerial bombardment from the regime and encroaching Isis on
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 380 PIPE...
his habitat team or cutting out but so I don't feel too bad smashing them from time to time because they are encroaching as I said okay I'm just gonna pull over on the side yeah so we can show everybody the Lions first
Video examples
Rehabilitating Baby...
the forest is very much alive but this life is under threat the wildlife is impacted because of the plantations because of farming and because of human encroachment in a year
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Said Musa
Statesman
We in the small developing countries are beginning to understand that our own citizens share a common fate requiring the active role of government to ensure that every citizen has a chance and means to participate productively within the society and to curb society's dangerous encroachment on the physical environment.
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Ellen Key
Swedish Writer
Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.
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P. Sathasivam
Indian Judge
There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, must have respect for the others and not encroach into each other's domain.
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John C. Calhoun
American Statesman
The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.
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Sucheta Dalal
The fact that technology makes it so easy to misuse personal information and encroach on a persons privacy has triggered a debate over whether Indias privacy laws are adequate to protect people.
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Ranbir Kapoor
Indian Actor
My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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Samuel Adams
American Revolutionary
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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Irving Babbitt
American Critic
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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Raj Thackeray
Indian Politician
When people encroach on forest land and in the periphery of habitats of wild animals, they attack humans.
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Pasquier Quesnel
French Theologian
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
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Said Musa
Statesman
We in the small developing countries are beginning to understand that our own citizens share a common fate requiring the active role of government to ensure that every citizen has a chance and means to participate productively within the society and to curb society's dangerous encroachment on the physical environment.
Quote examples
Ellen Key
Swedish Writer
Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is inclined at times to fear that social interests may encroach upon individual development, that a knowledge of all the ills affecting the community may act as too powerful a damper on the joys of youth.
Quote examples
P. Sathasivam
Indian Judge
There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of the State, i.e. the legislature, the executive and the judiciary, must have respect for the others and not encroach into each other's domain.
Quote examples
John C. Calhoun
American Statesman
The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.
Quote examples
Sucheta Dalal
The fact that technology makes it so easy to misuse personal information and encroach on a persons privacy has triggered a debate over whether Indias privacy laws are adequate to protect people.
Quote examples
Ranbir Kapoor
Indian Actor
My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
Quote examples
Samuel Adams
American Revolutionary
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
Quote examples
Irving Babbitt
American Critic
The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
Quote examples
Raj Thackeray
Indian Politician
When people encroach on forest land and in the periphery of habitats of wild animals, they attack humans.
Quote examples
Pasquier Quesnel
French Theologian
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
Example 1 of 10
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