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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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.

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