Encroach is valid Scrabble Word

Is encroach a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is encroach valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for ENCROACH in dictionary:

VERB:

advance gradually beyond usual or acceptable limits
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.
advance beyond the usual limit
impinge or infringe upon
intrude on (a person's territory, rights, personal life, etc.)
intrude gradually on a person's rights or land

NOUN:

Encroachment.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to advance beyond the proper limits
intrude gradually on a person\'s rights or land

Words related to ENCROACH

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Words that contain ENCROACH

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How to use ENCROACH in a sentence

Later there came a season when the commercial end of the game tended to encroach upon the limits of the pastime.
Gravity and modesty are the senses of piety, which being once slighted, sin will easily attempt and encroach upon us.
She went so far as to encroach on the prerogatives of the general of her armies, by making military appointments without his consent.
But his avarice, though it might exclude pleasure, was never suffered to encroach upon his virtue.
In authorizing Major-General Jackson to enter Florida in pursuit of the Seminoles care was taken not to encroach on the rights of Spain.
It will always be far more easy for the State governments to encroach upon the national authorities than for the national government to encroach upon the State authorities.
Why should the House of Representatives desire to encroach on the other departments of the Government? Their rightful powers are ample for every legitimate purpose.
Upon their rights or the exercise of them the General Government can have no motive to encroach.
These considerations should allay all apprehension that we are disposed to encroach on the rights or endanger the security of other states.
Even before the house was started its position and that of the garage had been staked so that the garden might not encroach on them.

Joy premature, and shouts ere victory, Encroach upon their rights and privileges.
Then they began to encroach on the actual tribal territories.
And that was beginning to encroach upon the enjoyment.
It will thus encroach upon regions which have not for long periods drained to the ocean.
Beware lest ye encroach upon the substance of your neighbor.
Directed by Torquemada, it began to encroach upon the crown, to insult the episcopacy, to defy the Papacy, to grind the Commons, and to outrage by its insolence the aristocracy.
God knows she had no desire to encroach on their domain any longer than absolutely necessary.
It will be said, that this court may encroach on the jurisdiction of the State courts.
It may be, some endeavour to make you encroach upon that for which God hath punished your predecessors.
At present, however, it passed without censure, as the effect of inattention, rather than a design to encroach upon the privileges of the house.
As Prince of Wales, Edward had made an attempt to encroach upon some woods belonging to Walter Langton, Bishop of Chester.
Hence, as was declared on the second page, the great problem of the art-creator consists in so balancing their operations that neither may encroach upon the domain of the other.
The Dutch and French also tended constantly to encroach upon their rights.
These means of awakening interest and relieving the tedium of the uninterrupted and monotonous study of text-books must not encroach on the regular duties of the school.
It is true that Prussia has since then, by degrees, endeavored to encroach upon the independence of the federal states.
He had, however, from the beginning no intention of allowing the Chambers to encroach upon the prerogatives of the Crown.
In this more favorable environment their families and their flocks gradually increased until they began to encroach upon the territory already occupied by the older inhabitants.
He should be careful to hold closely to the subject allotted to him so that he will not encroach upon the ground of other speakers.
Those of the north show a tendency to encroach on those of the south.
In another hour the sea began to encroach on the rock, and the fishermen, having collected as much as time would permit of the wrecked materials, returned to their boat.
Then I never was so poor in purse and I fear to end another campaign with a heavy debt to still further encroach upon my small savings.
It is a system of alternate checks and limitations, in which Reason does not supersede Faith, nor Faith encroach on Reason.
Accordingly, in order that their festivities might not encroach on the early hours of the Sabbath, they had the ball on Fourth-of-July eve, instead of the night of the Fourth.

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