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Word Meanings - ENCROACH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway. No sense, faculty, or member must encroach

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To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway. No sense, faculty, or member must encroach upon or interfere with the duty and office of another. South. Superstition, . . . a creeping and encroaching evil. Hooker. Exclude the encroaching cattle from thy ground. Dryden. Syn. -- To intrude; trench; infringe; invade; trespass. (more info) a hook (perh. confused with acrochier, F. accrocher, to hook, get hold of, E. accroach); pref. en- + F. croc hook. See Crook,

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  • FORCE
    To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
  • ENCROACHER
    One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.
  • ASSAILMENT
    The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.
  • TRENCH-PLOW; TRENCH-PLOUGH
    To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.
  • ASSAILER
    One who assails.
  • ASSAULTABLE
    Capable of being assaulted.
  • HARASS
    To fatigue; to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts; esp., to weary by importunity, teasing, or fretting; to cause to endure excessive burdens or anxieties; -- sometimes followed by out. harassed with a long and wearisome march. Bacon. Nature
  • INVADE
    1. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress. Which becomes a body, and doth then invade The state of life, out of the grisly shade. Spenser. 2. To enter with hostile intentions; to enter
  • CROWD
    1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
  • TRENCHER
    1. One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches. 2. A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use. 3. The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food. It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after
  • INFRINGER
    One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
  • LEARN
    linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
  • HURRY-SKURRY
    Confusedly; in a bustle. Gray.
  • CONSTRAINTIVE
    Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
  • WEIGHTINESS
    The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
  • WEIGHTILY
    In a weighty manner.
  • IMPRESS
    To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money. The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners. Evelyn. (more info) pref. im- in, on + premere to press. See Press to squeeze, and
  • PRESSIROSTRAL
    Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
  • PRESSIVE
    Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall.
  • INVADER
    One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.
  • COUNTER WEIGHT
    A counterpoise.
  • REINFORCEMENT
    See REëNFORCEMENT
  • HOTPRESSED
    Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
  • DEFORCEOR
    See DEFORCIANT
  • HALF-LEARNED
    Imperfectly learned.
  • WHURRY
    To whisk along quickly; to hurry. Whurrying the chariot with them to the shore. Vicars.
  • HOTPRESS
    To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • INTHRONG
    To throng or collect together. Fairfax.
  • WELTERWEIGHT
    1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
  • INCOMPRESSIBLE
    Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.

 

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