Encroaching is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ENCROACHING in dictionary:

VERB:
• advance gradually beyond usual or acceptable limits
• intrude on (a person's territory, rights, personal life, etc.)
ADJECTIVE:
• gradually intrusive without right or permission
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to advance beyond the proper limits

Words related to ENCROACHING

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Words that contain ENCROACHING

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How to use ENCROACHING in a sentence

• For all that, the encroaching town had not yet reached the neighborhood, and the windows commanded a pleasant view of clean rolling country and the blue Welsh hills.
• It will not be denied, that power is of an encroaching nature, and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.
• She felt an unspeakable happiness, and at the same time an encroaching fear.
• Fifth Avenue runs beside it like our Park Lane, beginning at Fifty-ninth Street, and about every five years people have to move further up, because of the encroaching shops.
• The brain is slowly softening into blubber, and the liver is gradually encroaching upon the heart.
• Expenses moderate, ye fathers of encroaching families.
• Evidently the shoals were encroaching upon the channel.
• His city in time got overwhelmed with the encroaching ocean, but its walls were not overthrown, nor were the rooms encumbered with the weeds and alluvial of the sea.
• It was a question of seconds, for the Farallone drank deep of the encroaching seas.
• Any hunter encroaching upon the Nascaupee territory, they insisted, would surely be slaughtered.
• Moxon, the publisher of a large edition of my poems, a sum sufficient to enable me to gratify my wish without encroaching upon what I considered due to my family.
• No, but I want to show how all I have put before him can be done without encroaching to the extent of one hour on his ordinary class studies.
• The period of the Encroaching of the Desert was at hand, and the deeps were all astir with movement.
• In her encroaching on the domain of the other muses, the prose-epic has annexed far more from her comic and tragic sisters than from any of the other six.
• The tourists, who abound, are often insolent and encroaching.
• Europeans are encroaching on their trapping lands, but do not go far inland.
• Flattery could not go much farther, without encroaching on omnipotence itself.
• The commons considered these proceedings as encroaching on their privileges.
• If she was already fencing with the encroaching years there was little evidence of it in her opulent good looks.
• The trouble was to see just where to put the house without encroaching upon profitable land.
• A holding already claimed by the encroaching English needed loop-holes, not windows.
• Far down, on our right, the river shone between the trees, and these trees, encroaching on the track, almost joined their branches above us.
• At certain hideous and solemn hours we feel that which is beyond the wall of the tomb encroaching on us.
• The piano lamp was gradually sinking beneath the encroaching tide.
• The southern Haytians learned, warlike habits from these encroaching Caribs, and were less gentle than the natives whom Columbus first met along the northern coast.
• A small room, and rendered yet smaller by the numerous chests and strong boxes encroaching upon its narrow limits.
• If in this bosom aught but thee Encroaching sought a boundless sway, Omniscience could the danger see, And Mercy look the cause away.
• For months before this uprising he had been going to and fro among the Sioux and their allies urging a revolt against the encroaching white man.
• The suppression of the great international order of the Templars twenty years later marked a new leap of the encroaching waves.
• The Tartars are forever encroaching on the Flowery Land.
• The skipper of each craft is at his own helm, roaring out orders, and eagerly watchful of the lights of his encroaching neighbors.
• It was a printed one, but the large round hand in which the address had been filled up, encroaching upon the letters, had made the name somewhat difficult to decipher.

Similar words containing CROACH without suffix ing and without prefix en

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