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Definition

to gradually take another's rights or property

encroaching = gradually taking another's rights or property

encroaching = gradually taking another's rights or property

Any space around her was her personal space; just by existing, you were encroaching.
Sarah Dessen -- Just Listen

encroaching = intruding or taking another's rights or property

encroach = gradually take rights or property that belongs to another

You're encroaching on Princess Myakaya's special domain now.
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina

encroaching = intruding or beginning to take a right that belongs to another

About seven miles from downtown Louisville, the community center was surrounded on three sides by potato farms and on the fourth side by encroaching suburbanization.
W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game

encroaching = gradually taking land previously used for a different purpose

At first, they stayed only a few hours, but soon they became like la calabaza, the squash plant in Alfonso's garden, whose giant leaves spread out, encroaching upon anything smaller.
Pam Munoz Ryan -- Esperanza Rising

encroaching = gradually taking another's rights or property

My mother is the surviving half of a blindfold trapeze act, not a fact I think about much even now that she is sightless, the result of encroaching and stubborn cataracts.
Louise Erdrich -- The Leap

encroaching = gradually taking what previously belonged to another

But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores.
William Faulkner -- A Rose for Emily

encroached = gradually taken property once used for other purposes

Old dreams encroached upon the waking world.
Cormac McCarthy -- The Road
Federal encroachment on state and municipal law-enforcement statutes.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Identity
Atlanta encroaches, and seems to swallow the little town.
Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
But this usurper his encroachment proud Stays not on Man; to God his tower intends Siege and defiance: Wretched man!
John Milton -- Paradise Lost
An uncertain movement began among them, in which some encroachment was made.
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
No. Your private life doesn't concern me so long as it doesn't encroach on our business.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
They landed in the charred ruins of Carvahall, and Eragon wandered along streets fringed with encroaching grass and weeds.
Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
My uncle has been too good for me to encroach.
Jane Austen -- Emma
He draped a blanket over his shoulders and drew it around them, cocooning her against the night and all encroachment.
Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
He strained to see Clary and Jace through the encroaching darkness.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels
There are a host of conditions encroaching on me.
Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You

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