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Encroach vs Violate - What's the difference?

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Encroach is a related term of violate.


As a verb encroach

is (obsolete) to seize, appropriate.

As a noun encroach

is (rare) encroachment.

As a proper noun violate is

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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.

    violate

    English

    Verb

    (violat)
  • To break, disregard, disagree or not act according to (rules, conventions, etc.).
  • The program tried to write to privileged memory, so it was flagged with a protect violate error.
    Accessing unauthorized files violates security protocol.
  • To rape.
  • Derived terms

    * violation * violable * violative

    Antonyms

    * comply * obey