Encroach vs Protrude - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between encroach and protrude

is that encroach is (obsolete) to seize, appropriate while protrude is to extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.

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.

protrude

English

Verb

(protrud)

To extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.

Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes .

To thrust forward; to drive or force along.

(John Locke)

To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth.

* Thomson

When Spring protrudes the bursting gems.

Derived terms

* protrudable * protrudent * protrusible * protrusion