OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 31705

encroach

/ɪŋˈkɹəʊtʃ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
inmiscuirse • invadir • traspasar • usurpar
To intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory.
Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely, stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other.
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 blusterin…