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encroach
English
Etymology
From Middle English encrochen, from Old French encrochier (“to seize”), from Old French en- + croc (“hook”), of Germanic origin. More at crook.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???k???t?/, /???k???t?/
- Rhymes: -??t?
Verb
encroach (third-person singular simple present encroaches, present participle encroaching, simple past and past participle encroached)
- (transitive, obsolete) to seize, appropriate
- (intransitive) to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: 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. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 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, OCLC 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.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 252d.
- Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely, stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: 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. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 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, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:
- (intransitive) to advance gradually beyond due limits
Derived terms
- encroacher
- encroachment
Translations
Noun
encroach (plural encroaches)
- (rare) Encroachment.
- 1805, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘What is Life?’:
- All that we see, all colours of all shade, / By encroach of darkness made?
- 2002, Caroline Winterer, The Culture of Classicism, JHU Press 2002, p. 116:
- Shorey was among the most vociferous opponents of the encroach of scientism and utilitarianism in education and society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- 1805, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘What is Life?’:
Translations
Anagrams
- Cochrane, charneco
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erose
English
Adjective
erose (comparative more erose, superlative most erose)
- Irregularly notched, eaten away, as though bitten.
Synonyms
- indented, jagged; see also Thesaurus:notched
Related terms
- erode
Anagrams
- soree
Italian
Verb
erose
- third-person singular past historic of erodere
erose
- feminine plural of eroso
Anagrams
- rosee
Latin
Participle
?r?se
- vocative masculine singular of ?r?sus
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