encroach

Etymology
From, from , from + , of  origin. More at.

Verb

 * 1)  to seize, appropriate
 * 2)  to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
 * 3) * 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; ], : 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. , London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde,  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,  793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:
 * 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.
 * 1)  to advance gradually beyond due limits
 * 1)  to advance gradually beyond due limits
 * 1)  to advance gradually beyond due limits
 * 1)  to advance gradually beyond due limits
 * 1)  to advance gradually beyond due limits

Translations

 * Arabic: اِخْتَلَسَ, أَزْعَجَ, تَدَخَّلَ فِي, قَيَّدَ
 * Bulgarian: навлизам незаконно
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: zasahovat, ,
 * Danish: krænke
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ;
 * German: widerrechtlich eindringen
 * Greek:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: aurara, auta
 * Polish:
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 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Spanish:
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 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: widerrechtlich vordringen, sich widerrechtlich ausdehnen, übergriffig werden, Übergriffe begehen
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian: ,

Noun

 * 1)  Encroachment.