See encroach on Wiktionary
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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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"word": "übergriffig werden"
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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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"sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
"word": "侵害"
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"sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
"word": "покушаться"
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"sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
"word": "inmiscuirse"
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"sense": "to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory",
"word": "inkräkta"
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"word": "sich widerrechtlich ausdehnen"
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"word": "übergriffig werden"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "Übergriffe begehen"
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"ref": "1805, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, What is Life?:",
"text": "All that we see, all colours of all shade,\n By encroach of darkness made?",
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"ref": "2002, Caroline Winterer, The Culture of Classicism, JHU Press, published 2002, page 116:",
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