Encroach vs Erode - What's the difference?
encroach | erode |
(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 wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction
As verbs the difference between encroach and erode
is that encroach is to seize, appropriate while erode is to wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction.As a noun encroach
is encroachment.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.
