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All encroach synonyms

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verb encroach

  • intrude — to thrust or bring in without invitation, permission, or welcome.
  • impinge — to make an impression; have an effect or impact (usually followed by on or upon): to impinge upon the imagination; social pressures that impinge upon one's daily life.
  • infringe — to commit a breach or infraction of; violate or transgress: to infringe a copyright; to infringe a rule.
  • invade — to enter forcefully as an enemy; go into with hostile intent: Germany invaded Poland in 1939.
  • trespass — Law. an unlawful act causing injury to the person, property, or rights of another, committed with force or violence, actual or implied. a wrongful entry upon the lands of another. the action to recover damages for such an injury.
  • make inroads into — to start to use up the supply of something
  • violate — to break, infringe, or transgress (a law, rule, agreement, promise, instructions, etc.).
  • business — Business is work relating to the production, buying, and selling of goods or services.
  • horn in — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
  • usurp — to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right: The pretender tried to usurp the throne.
  • appropriate — Something that is appropriate is suitable or acceptable for a particular situation.
  • arrogate — If someone arrogates to themselves something such as a responsibility or privilege, they claim or take it even though they have no right to do so.
  • crash — A crash is an accident in which a moving vehicle hits something and is damaged or destroyed.
  • interfere — to come into opposition, as one thing with another, especially with the effect of hampering action or procedure (often followed by with): Constant distractions interfere with work.
  • interpose — to place between; cause to intervene: to interpose an opaque body between a light and the eye.
  • intervene — to come between disputing people, groups, etc.; intercede; mediate.
  • meddle — to involve oneself in a matter without right or invitation; interfere officiously and unwantedly: Stop meddling in my personal life!
  • overstep — to go beyond; exceed: to overstep one's authority.
  • trench — Richard Chenevix [shen-uh-vee] /ˈʃɛn ə vi/ (Show IPA), 1807–86, English clergyman and scholar, born in Ireland.
  • barge in — If you barge in or barge in on someone, you rudely interrupt what they are doing or saying.
  • butt in — If you say that someone is butting in, you are criticizing the fact that they are joining in a conversation or activity without being asked to.
  • muscle in — a tissue composed of cells or fibers, the contraction of which produces movement in the body.
  • work in — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
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