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Encroaches vs Encroacher - What's the difference?

encroaches | encroacher |

As a verb encroaches

is third-person singular of encroach.

As a noun encroacher is

one who encroaches.

encroaches

English

Verb

(head)
  • (encroach)

  • 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.

    encroacher

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who encroaches.
  • See also

    * gatecrasher, interloper, peeping tom, persona non grata, backseat driver, kibitzer, meddler, nosy parker, marplot, buttinsky, busybody