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Another word for encroachment

Noun

  1. An advance beyond proper or legal limits

    2. See also:

    enter

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Another word for encroachment

Noun
    2. See also:

    intrusion

    attack

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Sentence Examples

  • The peninsula is much exposed to encroachment by the sea.

  • Rows of red tulips stood like sentinels along the walkway, struggling to survive against the encroachment of summer.

  • This new procedure, we may imagine, was resented by the northern Hebrews as an encroachment upon their liberties.

  • the constant encroachment along an extended line of frontier; there is also no religious question involved.

  • view of ecclesiastical encroachment on the civil power; the quaint verses, disposed in his now favourite dialogue-form, were first published, nine years after his death, under the title Historia ecclesiastics (L.W.

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