encroach

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• UK: /ɪŋˈkɹəʊtʃ/
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• UK: /ɛŋˈkɹəʊtʃ/
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• rhymes with -əʊtʃ
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• CMU ARPABET: IH0 N K R OW1 CH Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English encrochen, from Old French encrochier (“to seize”), from Old French en- + croc (“hook”), of Germanic origin. More at crook.

51 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: اِخْتَلَسَ (iḵtalasa) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Arabic: أَزْعَجَ (ʔazʕaja) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Arabic: تَدَخَّلَ فِي (tadaḵḵala fī) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Arabic: قَيَّدَ (qayyada) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Bulgarian: навлизам незаконно (navlizam nezakonno) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Bulgarian: натрапвам се (natrapvam se) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Bulgarian: натрапя се (natrapja se) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Bulgarian: злоупотребявам (zloupotrebjavam) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Bulgarian: злоупотребя (zloupotrebja) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Catalan: usurpar — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Catalan: ocupar — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Chinese Mandarin: 侵犯 (qīnfàn) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Chinese Mandarin: 侵害 (qīnhài) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Chinese Mandarin: 侵入 (qīnrù) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Czech: zasahovat — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Czech: omezovat — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Czech: narušovat — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Danish: krænke — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Dutch: binnendringen — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Finnish: loukata — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Finnish: tunkeutua — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• German: widerrechtlich eindringen — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Greek: επεμβαίνω (epemvaíno) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Hungarian: betolakodik — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Italian: invadere — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Japanese: 侵入する (shinnyū-suru) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Korean: 침입하다 (chimip-hada) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Malayalam: കയ്യേറുക (kayyēṟuka) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Māori: aurara — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Māori: auta — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Polish: naruszać — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Portuguese: invadir — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Russian: вторга́ться (vtorgátʹsja) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Russian: вто́ргнуться (vtórgnutʹsja) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Russian: посяга́ть (posjagátʹ) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Russian: посягну́ть (posjagnútʹ) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Russian: покушаться (pokušatʹsja) — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Spanish: inmiscuirse — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Spanish: traspasar — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Swedish: inkräkta — to intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory
• Catalan: envair — to advance gradually beyond due limits
• Dutch: uitdijen — to advance gradually beyond due limits
• Finnish: tunkeutua — to advance gradually beyond due limits
• German: widerrechtlich vordringen — to advance gradually beyond due limits
• German: sich widerrechtlich ausdehnen — to advance gradually beyond due limits
• German: übergriffig werden — to advance gradually beyond due limits
• German: Übergriffe begehen — to advance gradually beyond due limits
• Greek: επεκτείνομαι (epekteínomai) — to advance gradually beyond due limits
• Hungarian: betolakodik — to advance gradually beyond due limits
• Russian: вторга́ться (vtorgátʹsja) — to advance gradually beyond due limits
• Russian: вто́ргнуться (vtórgnutʹsja) — to advance gradually beyond due limits