encroaches in English

verb

1

intrude on (a person's territory or a thing considered to be a right).

rather than encroach on his privacy, she might have kept to her room

synonyms: intrude on, trespass on, impinge on, obtrude on, impose oneself on, invade, infiltrate, interrupt, infringe on, violate, interfere with, disturb, horn in on, muscle in on, entrench on

verb

intrude on, trespass on, impinge on, obtrude on, impose oneself on, invade, infiltrate, interrupt, infringe on, violate, interfere with, disturb, horn in on, muscle in on, entrench on
entrench, trench, impinge
impinge, infringe

Use "encroaches" in a sentence

1. 14 The desert continually encroaches on the fertile land.

2. The desert continually encroaches on the fertile land.

3. In our criminal law, crime of perjure encroaches on the normal criminal procedure of justice.

4. 28 The paint becomes exhausted, the city encroaches with its soot, the plaster crumbles within.

5. These time-controlled data delineate a distinctive evolution from largely aggradational to largely progradational depositional geometries as deformation progressively encroaches on the foreland.