Crossword-Solution: ENCROACH 8 letters, 58 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
Encroach v. i. To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the
possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench;
-- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach
on the highway.
Encroach n. Encroachment.

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ENCROACH anagram COCHRANE

We have 58 clues for the answer “ENCROACH”

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intrude gradually on a person's rights or land 1 answer
Advance beyond proper limits. 1 answer
Advance beyond proper or usual limits 1 answer
Cross a line one shouldn't cross 1 answer
Disrespect a boundary 1 answer
Go offside 1 answer
Gradually intrude 1 answer
Gradually intrude (on) 1 answer
INTRUDE usurpingly (on) 1 answer
Infringe or impinge 1 answer
Intrude gradually 1 answer
Intrude on another's rights. 1 answer
Make gradual inroads 1 answer
Infringe on 3 answers
Infringe upon 3 answers
Horn in (on) 4 answers
Trespass (on) 4 answers
poach 7 answers
make inroads 7 answers
overstep 10 answers
infract 10 answers
ADVANCE BEYOND THE USUAL LIMIT 11 answers
Disobey 11 answers
impinge 11 answers
Go too far 13 answers
Transgress 15 answers
Entrench 16 answers
interlope 18 answers
go beyond 18 answers
infiltrate 23 answers
infringe 25 answers
Trench 25 answers
Obtrude 25 answers
Intervene 25 answers
Squat 27 answers
Penetrate 29 answers
Meddle 29 answers
fall upon 32 answers
overlap 34 answers
Interfere 37 answers
Pirate 37 answers
behave badly 41 answers
Overrun 42 answers
Violate 43 answers
deflower 44 answers
Impose 44 answers
usurp 45 answers
Interrupt 49 answers
Assail 51 answers
Mis-behave 54 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ENCROACH (5)

The lesson served its purpose—the young apes kept out of his way, as young apes should when their betters were about, and the old bulls made no attempt to encroach upon his prerogatives.
The Return of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
Mugambi built a fire and cooked his portion of the kill; but Tarzan, Sheeta, and Akut tore theirs, raw, with their sharp teeth, growling among themselves when one ventured to encroach upon the share of another.
The Beasts of Tarzan Edgar Rice Burroughs 1993
The look was a manly, open, and genuine look of admiration; a momentary tribute of a kind which any honest Englishman might have paid to fairness without being ashamed of the feeling, or permitting it to encroach in the slightest degree upon his emotional obligations as a husband and head of a family.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1995
And if it be delightful to the Old Man, it is none the less profitable to his younger brother, the conscientious gentleman I feel never quite sure of your urbane and smiling coteries; I fear they indulge a man’s vanities in silence, suffer him to encroach, encourage him on to be an ass, and send him forth again, not merely contemned for the moment, but radically more contemptible than when he entered.
Memories and Portraits Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
You will not let the thing alone.” “Excuse my mentioning that whatsoever I take the liberty of doing will encroach on no right of yours,” she said.
The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 2006

Quotes with ENCROACH (3)

Poetry, if it is not to be a lifeless repetition of forms, must be constantly exploring "the frontiers of the spirit." But these frontiers are not like the surveys of geographical explorers, conquered once for all and settled. The frontiers of the spirit are more like the jungle which, unless continuously kept under control, is always ready to encroach and eventually obliterate the cultivated area.
T. S. Eliot
Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.
Richard J. Maybury Whatever Happened to Justice? Revised Edition
I do not want to recollect. I should be afraid of preventing the future and of allowing the past to encroach on me. It is out of the utter forgetfulness of yesterday that I create every new hour's freshness. It is never enough for me to have been happy. I do not believe in dead things and cannot distinguish between being no more and never having been.
Andre Gide
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 12 times in crossword archives (1953–2021).