Encroach vs Encoach - What's the difference?

encroach | encoach |

As verbs the difference between encroach and encoach

is that encroach is (obsolete) to seize, appropriate while encoach is (archaic) to place or carry in a coach.

As a noun encroach

is (rare) encroachment.

encroach

English

Verb

(es)

(obsolete) to seize, appropriate

to intrude unrightfully on someone else's rights or territory

* 2005 , .

Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely, stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other.

to advance gradually beyond due limits

Derived terms

* encroacher * encroachment

Noun

(es)

(rare) Encroachment.

* 1805 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘What is Life?’:

All that we see, all colours of all shade, / By encroach of darkness made?

* 2002 , Caroline Winterer, The Culture of Classicism , JHU Press 2002, p. 116:

Shorey was among the most vociferous opponents of the encroach of scientism and utilitarianism in education and society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.