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The city's expansion is encroaching on the fragile wetlands.encroaching = gradually taking more land
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Broadband providers are encroaching on traditional cable TV market share.encroaching = gradually taking
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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. (source)encroaching = gradually taking another's rights or property
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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. (source)encroaching = gradually taking what previously belonged to another
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Any space around her was her personal space; just by existing, you were encroaching. (source)encroaching = intruding or taking another's rights or property
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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. (source)encroaching = gradually taking land previously used for a different purpose
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You're encroaching on Princess Myakaya's special domain now. (source)encroaching = intruding or beginning to take a right that belongs to another
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It wasn't the cider which made me surpass myself, it was this liberation we had torn from the gray encroachments of 1943, the escape we had concocted, this afternoon of momentary, illusory, special and separate peace.† (source)
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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. (source)encroached = gradually taken property once used for other purposes
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Encroach, presume, and the game is up. (source)Encroach = gradually take rights or property that belongs to another
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He draped a blanket over his shoulders and drew it around them, cocooning her against the night and all encroachment.† (source)encroachment = the gradually taking of another's rights or property
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He sees Frederick staring into his book of birds; he sees the furor of the mines at Zollverein, the shunting cars, the banging locks, the trundling conveyors, smokestacks silting the sky day and night; he sees Jutta slashing back and forth with a lit torch as darkness encroaches from all sides.† (source)encroaches = gradually takes another's rights or property
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He lists the disasters, the droughts, the storms, the fires, the encroaching seas that swallowed up so much of the land, the brutal war for what little sustenance remained.† (source)encroaching = to gradually take something like control, property, or rights from another
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When I get to England I'll put a stop to their bloody encroachments.† (source)
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Darkness encroached at the edge of my vision.† (source)encroached = gradually took another's rights or property
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We certainly won't encroach on your territory.† (source)
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