Encroached is valid Scrabble Word

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

10 letters word
18 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for ENCROACHED in dictionary:

VERB:

advance gradually beyond usual or acceptable limits
intrude on (a person's territory, rights, personal life, etc.)

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to advance beyond the proper limits

Words related to ENCROACHED

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How to use ENCROACHED in a sentence

As we advanced, the alders and willows encroached more and more upon the channel, until it became too narrow for rowing.
And, sure enough, presently the faintest shadow of an outline encroached on the solid rectangle of faint light.
Hence he broke with Lafayette, who was always ready to upset the throne when it encroached on the liberties of the people.
Behind the great house a kitchen-garden encroached on the meadow.
The sandy plain encroached much on the grassy flats, and reduced the winter course of the creek to half a mile in breadth.
The apple orchards, still white with blossoms, and green with wheat or early grass, extended up the hills, and encroached upon the dense brown forests.
This was best observed in their growing consciousness of rights, and their readiness to defend them, even when encroached upon by members of the white race.
XX THE LIGHT IN THE DOME From where he sat, in a tiny alcove which jutted out and encroached upon the line of the sidewalk, Mr.
To the rear, where it encroached on the jungle, it was like any scattered bush village.
Everywhere the crops have encroached on them, half-hiding them, smothering them, climbing right over them.

Their father at death left each of his sons an island of equal size and value, but the sea daily encroached on that of the elder brother and added to the island of Amidas.
The depth had encroached upon the slope whereon he was wont to ascend the further side.
But, if I know myself, as I never have encroached on the command of others, so I will not suffer even my friend Sir Sidney to encroach upon mine.
On the contrary, the legislatures, like Caesar, fed upon meat that made them great and steadily encroached upon executive prerogatives as they tried out and found their strength.
The road was narrow at best, and the newly laid stone-heaps had encroached upon its bounds.
In the second place, unless individuals are punished, the rights of other individuals will, necessarily, be encroached upon.
Here the channel of the river had encroached south, and the old bed was without water, except a few ponds.
But the time came when the common was encroached upon, and their labour was not needed on the estate, and they were quietly turned out of their cottage.
Little by little, this barbaric reign of force was encroached upon and superseded by politics, the forms of statesmanship and legislation.
His arm had encroached so far that it was around her neck.
Nothing like that for bracing up a feeble heart! I worked restlessly from morning till night, and often encroached on what should have been sleep.
The boundary of a State, with which we have no more right to interfere than with the boundary of the State of Kentucky, is encroached upon.
The embankment of the railroad encroached upon one side of it, and the passing engines sifted cinders and ashes over the graves.
He drove from the cathedral precincts the buyers and sellers who had encroached thereon, and the partition wall that divided the cathedral was taken down at his request.
The great arched gateway too was not entirely subjugated, though the climbing tendrils and velvety leaves dressed the pillars and encroached on the arch.
Society, like nature, is a jealous power, and will have not her rights encroached on, or her system set at naught.
But, if a layman encroached on these privileges, he was in danger of the tar-barrel, and was prosecuted.
In 1622 Gorges and John Mason had obtained a grant of all the land between the rivers Kennebec and Merrimack, and the new grant encroached somewhat upon this.
We had expected to reach the place some hours earlier, but our late arrival encroached upon the hour of church service.
It is in various places encroached upon more or less by the rocks forming its bed, some of which are quite perpendicular.
It now ran from Greylingstad to Wilge River Station on the Delagoa Bay Railway, and encroached upon the area in which Botha could act with reasonable hope of success.
It is estimated that the sea had encroached from ten feet to two miles along the coast of St.
It was a tedious undertaking and even her study hours were encroached upon.

Similar words containing CROACH without suffix ed and without prefix en

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