Encroaches

Word ENCROACHES
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Definitions and meanings of "Encroaches"

What do we mean by encroaches?

To seize, appropriate

To intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory

To advance gradually beyond due limits

Approaching or intruding, especially in a gradual or sneaking way; advancing beyond customary limits. Urban Dictionary

The act of encroachment refers to when someone is invading your space or your zone in an innapropriate way. Encroachment happens on all levels whether it's your older brother dropping game on your girlfriend, or when your roomates friend stays at your house for over a week and drinks all of your soymilk. Note: When being encroached upon, one can throw a red flag or call a foul in order to identify and prevent any further damage which may be caused. Urban Dictionary

Basically, to creep. Urban Dictionary

When you are sitting on an airplane and the person next to you is taller or fatter so parts of their body start to spread to your seay making you uncomfortable. Urban Dictionary

When a child walks in on their parents having sex Urban Dictionary

(noun) - The act of a fart encroaching on the exit, the exact moment when one is about to take Gas Relief medicine. (verb) - A fart Jumping the gun when it realizes its demise is soon to come in the form of Gas Relief medicine. Urban Dictionary

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The word "encroaches" in example sentences

SCHWARTZ: That's a big thing among blue collar workers and kind of encroaches in to some of Hillary's base. ❋ Unknown (2008)

(The authors were / are intent on preserving their neighborhood small school which is cost prohibitive to operate; it costs far above the average elementary school student allotment so it 'encroaches' on the education dollar of our other students.) ❋ Unknown (2008)

Concerned about the world his children will grow up in, this father of six young children ranging in age from ten months to eight years old has pitted himself against the American surveillance state as it encroaches upon personal privacy and our constitutional freedoms. ❋ John W. Whitehead (2010)

The naïve boundary between “me” and the “outside world” is my skin and the lenses of my eyes, but, as we learn more and more about the way events in our own bodies can be inaccessible “to us,” the great outside encroaches. ❋ James L. Kugel (2011)

It's not always easy being green in Cortland, which encroaches on Bills territory. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Unfortunately, coal extraction and processing are making these traditions a relic of the past in the coalfields; people can't drink from polluted wells, fish can't live in polluted streams, and mining increasingly encroaches on the forest. ❋ Rebecca R. Scott (2010)

Yet, the competitiveness of our society encroaches upon the yoga studio, to judge by people looking around to see whether they are stretching as far as their neighbors. ❋ M.D. Norman E. Rosenthal (2012)

Pushing the boundaries like this by rarified transnational rulings, becomes a threat to security and encroaches upon reasonableness and the astute handling of offenders. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Although their own carbon footprint is virtually nonexistent, the islanders bear the heartbreaking distinction of being some of the world's first environmental refugees, facing imminent displacement as the sea encroaches upon their home. ❋ Jennifer Redfearn (2011)

Despite the parents' efforts to create a haven within their home, repression steadily encroaches on their private lives and impossible compromises must be made to hold together what remains of their family. ❋ Roya Rastegar (2011)

The Palestinians insist that if Israel were truly willing to accept a Palestinian state, it would cease its construction, which encroaches further into would-be Palestinian territory. ❋ Alon Ben-Meir (2012)

Planners will need to decide what lands to prioritize as the climate warms and as development encroaches on wild lands. ❋ David Kroodsma (2011)

"Most of the proposed legislation potentially encroaches on the commander in chief's executive power under the U.S. Constitution," Mr. Stimson wrote. ❋ Julian E.Barnes (2011)

She [began] to encroach on Marisas [sandwich]. But [marisa] caught her in time. ❋ Morgan Tee (2008)

Man, i'd be way more comfortable chillin at my place if i didn't have multiple dudes there at any given moment. I [might have to] call them out on their [encroachment] and tell them to [beat it]. ❋ Christian Kirk (2006)

[Dude], don' be encroachin' on [muh] [grill]. ❋ Encroacherz (2008)

The obese woman's thigh was touching mine on [the airplane]. What a seat encroacher! I had to put a pillow next to the seat [divider] because the man's elbow were in [my space]. I hoped when his elbow touched the pillow he would stop being a seat encroacher. At the very least, he'd be touching the pillow and not me. ❋ Ranee Stevens (2011)

When [Bobby] [walked in on] his parents having sex, it was [classified] as a Midnight Encroachment ❋ Jsjjsjshbdbdjsbsb (2018)

I was farting like an absolute [menace], I tried to take [some gas] medicine, but that was no match for the short term [fart time encroachment]. ❋ Niquil (2021)

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