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Encircle vs Encroach - What's the difference?

encircle | encroach |

In lang=en terms the difference between encircle and encroach

is that encircle is to surround, form a circle around while encroach is to advance gradually beyond due limits.

As verbs the difference between encircle and encroach

is that encircle is to surround, form a circle around while encroach is (obsolete) to seize, appropriate.

As a noun encroach is

(rare) encroachment.

encircle

English

Verb

(encircl)
  • To surround, form a circle around.

    • Derived terms

    * encirclement

    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.