Encroach vs Endanger - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between encroach and endanger

is that encroach is to advance gradually beyond due limits while endanger is to put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.

As verbs the difference between encroach and endanger

is that encroach is (obsolete) to seize, appropriate while endanger is to put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.

As a noun encroach

is (rare) encroachment.

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.

endanger

English

Alternative forms

* endaunger (obsolete) * indanger

Verb

(en verb)

To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.

* 1593, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona

I hold him but a fool that will endanger / His body [in a duel] for a girl that loves him not

* Burke

All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him.

* 1877, Louisa May Alcott, Under the Lilacs

If you endanger other people's life and liberty in your pursuit of happiness, I shall have to confiscate your arms, boys.

(obsolete) To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.

* Francis Bacon

He that turneth the humours back endangereth malign ulcers.

Synonyms

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