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encroach
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[ɛnˈkrəʊtʃ], (Verb)
Definitions:
- intrude on (a person's territory, rights, personal life, etc.)
(e.g: rather than encroach on his privacy she might have kept to her room)
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Origin
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late Middle English (in the sense ‘obtain unlawfully, seize’; formerly also as incroach): from Old French encrochier ‘seize, fasten upon’, from en- ‘in, on’ + crochier (from croc ‘hook’, from Old Norse krókr)
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