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Encroach synonyms and antonyms

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trespass
(Law) To commit an unlawful injury to the person, property, or rights of another, with actual or implied force or violence, especially to enter onto another's land wrongfully.
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encroachment (related)
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intrude (related)
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impinge (related)
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trample (related)
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keep off (antonym)
To stay or cause to stay at a distance (from).
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trench
To cut furrows or ditches in.
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infringe
Break or violate a treaty, a law, a right etc.
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invade
To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.
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overstep
To go too far beyond (a limit); especially, to cross boundaries or exceed norms or conventions.
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meddle (related)
(Intransitive, now US regional) To have sex. [from 14th c.]
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intrench
Alternative form of entrench.
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usurp
To use and assume the coat of arms of another person.
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entrench
To surround or fortify with a trench or trenches
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Encroach Sentence Examples

  • The marshes encroach most upon the parishes of St Charles, Orleans and Plaquemines.

  • He took in everything, noting the enemies had begun to encroach upon the neutral territory agreed upon in the cease-fire.

  • Someone may be a beginner and encroach into "your" space, or perhaps someone was clumsy and accidentally kicked your bottle over.

  • The cathedral chapters took advantage of this situation to oppose their jurisdiction to that of the bishops, and to encroach on their prerogatives.

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