Encroach vs Intruder - What's the difference?
encroach | intruder |
(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:
As nouns the difference between encroach and intruder
is that encroach is (rare) encroachment while intruder is someone who intrudes.As a verb encroach
is (obsolete) to seize, appropriate.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.