Crossword-Solution: ENCROACHER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Encroacher | n. | One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “ENCROACHER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| desecrator | 3 answers |
| Usurper | 9 answers |
| ARROGATOR | 17 answers |
| trespasser | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ENCROACHER (5)
All that you say of Henry is most true; I do not wonder, I know him to be very magnanimous; you will say I trade upon the knowledge? It is possible; there are dangerous virtues: virtues that tempt the encroacher.
The first encroacher, as they supposed him to be, was a woodpecker; he seemed, as I thought, to mean them no harm; but as soon as they heard his tap, tap, tap, they flew at him very angrily and drove him away.
There was no word of ancient enmity or of former wars, no mention of Bohemond as the ancient usurper of Antioch, and the encroacher upon the empire.
For, as the wooer had begun to hold the refusal of the damsel as somewhat capricious and inexplicable after the degree of encouragement which, in his opinion, she had afforded; Catharine, on the other hand, considered him rather as an encroacher upon the grace which she had shown him than one whose delicacy rendered him deserving of such favour.
Shall one whom she so much abhors be luxuriously supplied from her bounty? The wedded pair must live together, she will think; and shall this hated encroacher find refuge from beggary and vileness under _her_ roof,--be lodged and banqueted at _her_ expense? _That_ her indignant heart will never suffer.