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View definitions for encroach upon

encroach upon

verb as in overreach

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Conservationists say elephants are becoming more aggressive in Assam because their habitats are shrinking, and even their traditional natural corridors are being encroached upon.

From BBC

Street ends are regularly encroached upon by wealthy neighbors.

Some Palestinians say the Nakba never ended because Israeli settlers have continued to encroach upon their land in the West Bank, sometimes engaging in violent actions.

These must be deployed judiciously as threatened by a violent and angry working class mob encroaches upon their estate.

From Salon

Few understand this more than Indigenous Americans, creators of the original Land Back movement, designed to reclaim and steward ancestral territories that were taken and encroached upon more than a century ago.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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