单词	encroachment
释义	encroachen‧croach /ɪnˈkrəʊtʃ $ -ˈkroʊtʃ/ verb [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] Word Origin WORD ORIGINencroach Origin: 1300-1400 Old French encrochier ‘to seize’, from croche ‘hook’ Verb Table VERB TABLE encroach Simple Form Present I, you, we, they encroach he, she, it encroaches Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they encroached Present perfect I, you, we, they have encroached he, she, it has encroached Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had encroached Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will encroach Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have encroached Continuous Form Present I am encroaching he, she, it is encroaching you, we, they are encroaching Past I, he, she, it was encroaching you, we, they were encroaching Present perfect I, you, we, they have been encroaching he, she, it has been encroaching Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been encroaching Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be encroaching Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been encroaching Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But even there, modernity has encroached. Fourthly, a successful terminal at Stratford would inevitably and inexorably encroach on the Lea Valley regional park and reduce leisure facilities. His knapsack was so big that it proved a useful weapon in knocking encroaching sunbathers off his collection of sun loungers. It is possible that the deletion is encroaching upon an important part of the protein and altering the conformation of the complex. One was the simple protection of individual rights against an encroaching state, the basic defence of rights in the liberal tradition. Poachers, illegal loggers and encroaching farmers are active everywhere across the sprawling archipelago. The law stipulates that a monument can not interfere or encroach upon an existing memorial. This is the chalk of the plains, although it encroaches upon the slopes, most notably in the northern Montagne. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► on · Human beings have encroached on almost every part of the world.· And the scaffolding that surrounded the dress circle has now encroached on to the stage. 1to gradually take more of someone’s time, possessions, rights etc than you shouldencroach on/upon Bureaucratic power has encroached upon the freedom of the individual.2to gradually cover more and more landencroach into The fighting encroached further east.—encroachment noun [countable, uncountable]:  foreign encroachment
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