"encroach" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɪŋˈkɹəʊtʃ/ [UK], /ɛŋˈkɹəʊtʃ/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-encroach.wav [Southern-England] Forms: encroaches [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊtʃ Etymology: From Middle English encrochen, from Old French encrochier (“to seize”), from Old French en- + croc (“hook”), of Germanic origin. More at crook. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|encrochen}} Middle English encrochen, {{der|en|fro|encrochier||to seize}} Old French encrochier (“to seize”), {{der|en|fro|en-}} Old French en-, {{m|fro|croc|t=hook}} croc (“hook”), {{der|en|gem|-}} Germanic, {{l|en|crook}} crook Head templates: {{en-noun}} encroach (plural encroaches)
  1. (rare) Encroachment. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-encroach-en-noun-Df-P4vzE

Verb [English]

IPA: /ɪŋˈkɹəʊtʃ/ [UK], /ɛŋˈkɹəʊtʃ/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-encroach.wav [Southern-England] Forms: encroaches [present, singular, third-person], encroaching [participle, present], encroached [participle, past], encroached [past]
Rhymes: -əʊtʃ Etymology: From Middle English encrochen, from Old French encrochier (“to seize”), from Old French en- + croc (“hook”), of Germanic origin. More at crook. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|encrochen}} Middle English encrochen, {{der|en|fro|encrochier||to seize}} Old French encrochier (“to seize”), {{der|en|fro|en-}} Old French en-, {{m|fro|croc|t=hook}} croc (“hook”), {{der|en|gem|-}} Germanic, {{l|en|crook}} crook Head templates: {{en-verb}} encroach (third-person singular simple present encroaches, present participle encroaching, simple past and past participle encroached)
  1. (transitive, obsolete) to seize, appropriate Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-encroach-en-verb-0vPbz8Nv
  2. (intransitive) to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory Tags: intransitive Translations (to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory): اِخْتَلَسَ (iḵtalasa) (Arabic), أَزْعَجَ (ʔazʕaja) (Arabic), تَدَخَّلَ فِي (tadaḵḵala fī) (Arabic), قَيَّدَ (qayyada) (Arabic), навлизам незаконно (navlizam nezakonno) (Bulgarian), usurpar (Catalan), ocupar (Catalan), 侵害 (qīnhài) (Chinese Mandarin), 侵犯 (qīnfàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 侵入 (qīnrù) (Chinese Mandarin), zasahovat [imperfective] (Czech), omezovat [imperfective] (Czech), narušovat [imperfective] (Czech), krænke (Danish), binnendringen (Dutch), tunkeutua (english: territory) (Finnish), loukata (english: rights) (Finnish), widerrechtlich eindringen (German), επεμβαίνω (epemvaíno) (Greek), invadere (Italian), 侵入する (shinnyū-suru) (alt: しんにゅうする) (Japanese), 침입하다 (chimip-hada) (Korean), കയ്യേറുക (kayyēṟuka) (Malayalam), aurara (Maori), auta (Maori), naruszać (Polish), invadir (Portuguese), вторга́ться (vtorgátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), вто́ргнуться (vtórgnutʹsja) [perfective] (Russian), посяга́ть (posjagátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), посягну́ть (posjagnútʹ) [perfective] (Russian), покушаться (pokušatʹsja) (Russian), inmiscuirse (Spanish), inkräkta (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-encroach-en-verb-2cIGaUe3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 12 19 63 7 Disambiguation of 'to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory': 1 98 1
  3. (intransitive) to advance gradually beyond due limits Tags: intransitive Translations (to advance gradually beyond due limits): envair (Catalan), uitdijen (Dutch), tunkeutua (Finnish), widerrechtlich vordringen (German), sich widerrechtlich ausdehnen (German), übergriffig werden (German), Übergriffe begehen (German), επεκτείνομαι (epekteínomai) (Greek), betolakodik (Hungarian), вторга́ться (vtorgátʹsja) [imperfective] (Russian), вто́ргнуться (vtórgnutʹsja) [perfective] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-encroach-en-verb-eyDDMAhM Disambiguation of 'to advance gradually beyond due limits': 1 1 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: encroacher, encroachment

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          "ref": "1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 606515406; republished in Francis J[ames] Child, editor, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, published 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228",
          "text": "Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere."
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          "ref": "2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 252d",
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          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
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          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
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          "word": "أَزْعَجَ"
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          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "ar",
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          "roman": "tadaḵḵala fī",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "تَدَخَّلَ فِي"
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          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "ar",
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          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "قَيَّدَ"
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          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "navlizam nezakonno",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "навлизам незаконно"
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          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "usurpar"
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          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "ocupar"
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          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "qīnhài",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "侵害"
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          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "qīnfàn",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "侵犯"
        },
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          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "qīnrù",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "侵入"
        },
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
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          ],
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
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          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
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          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "krænke"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "binnendringen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "english": "territory",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "tunkeutua"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "english": "rights",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "loukata"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "widerrechtlich eindringen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "epemvaíno",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "επεμβαίνω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "invadere"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "alt": "しんにゅうする",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "shinnyū-suru",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "侵入する"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "ko",
          "lang": "Korean",
          "roman": "chimip-hada",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "침입하다"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
          "roman": "kayyēṟuka",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "കയ്യേറുക"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "aurara"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "auta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "naruszać"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "invadir"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vtorgátʹsja",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "вторга́ться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vtórgnutʹsja",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "вто́ргнуться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "posjagátʹ",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "посяга́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "posjagnútʹ",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "посягну́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "pokušatʹsja",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "покушаться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "inmiscuirse"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 98 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
          "word": "inkräkta"
        }
      ]
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        "to advance gradually beyond due limits"
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        "(intransitive) to advance gradually beyond due limits"
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          "_dis1": "1 1 98",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "to advance gradually beyond due limits",
          "word": "envair"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 98",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to advance gradually beyond due limits",
          "word": "uitdijen"
        },
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          "_dis1": "1 1 98",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to advance gradually beyond due limits",
          "word": "tunkeutua"
        },
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          "_dis1": "1 1 98",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to advance gradually beyond due limits",
          "word": "widerrechtlich vordringen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 98",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to advance gradually beyond due limits",
          "word": "sich widerrechtlich ausdehnen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 98",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to advance gradually beyond due limits",
          "word": "übergriffig werden"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 98",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to advance gradually beyond due limits",
          "word": "Übergriffe begehen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 98",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "epekteínomai",
          "sense": "to advance gradually beyond due limits",
          "word": "επεκτείνομαι"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 98",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to advance gradually beyond due limits",
          "word": "betolakodik"
        },
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          "_dis1": "1 1 98",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vtorgátʹsja",
          "sense": "to advance gradually beyond due limits",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "вторга́ться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 1 98",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "vtórgnutʹsja",
          "sense": "to advance gradually beyond due limits",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "вто́ргнуться"
        }
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      "tags": [
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      "ipa": "/ɛŋˈkɹəʊtʃ/",
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        "UK"
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  "word": "encroach"
}

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