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to gradually take another's rights or property- The city's expansion is encroaching on the fragile wetlands.
encroaching = gradually taking another's rights or property
- Broadband providers are encroaching on traditional cable TV market share.
- Any space around her was her personal space; just by existing, you were encroaching.Sarah Dessen -- Just Listen
- Encroach, presume, and the game is up.Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- You're encroaching on Princess Myakaya's special domain now.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- There are a host of conditions encroaching on me.Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
- He strained to see Clary and Jace through the encroaching darkness.Cassandra Clare -- City of Fallen Angels
- Private local posts had encroached so far on the Imperial licenses that the two cities shut down their Thurn and Taxis offices.Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
encroaching = gradually taking another's rights or property
encroaching = intruding or taking another's rights or property
encroach = gradually take rights or property that belongs to another
encroaching = intruding or beginning to take a right that belongs to another
encroaching = gradually taking land previously used for a different purpose
encroaching = gradually taking what previously belonged to another
encroached = gradually taken property once used for other purposes