Encroach vs Corrode - What's the difference?
encroach | corrode |
(obsolete) to seize, appropriate
to intrude unrightfully on someone else's rights or territory
* 2005 , .
to advance gradually beyond due limits
(rare) Encroachment.
* 1805 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘What is Life?’:
* 2002 , Caroline Winterer, The Culture of Classicism , JHU Press 2002, p. 116:
To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.
To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.
To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.
As verbs the difference between encroach and corrode
is that encroach is (obsolete) to seize, appropriate while corrode is .As a noun encroach
is (rare) encroachment.As an adjective corrode is
corroded.encroach
English
Verb
(es)- Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely, stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other.
Derived terms
* encroacher * encroachmentNoun
(es)- All that we see, all colours of all shade, / By encroach of darkness made?
- 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.
