📖 Определения и значения для слова encroach
📒 to begin to affect or use up too much of somebody’s time, rights, personal life, etc.
- I won't encroach on your time any longer.
- He never allows work to encroach upon his family life.
- Gradually the negative feelings encroached into her work.
📒 to slowly begin to cover more and more of an area
- The growing town soon encroached on the surrounding countryside.
- the encroaching tide (= that is coming in)