encroach

encroach
verb
  1. [no obj.](encroach on/upon)intrude on (a person's territory or a thing considered to be a right)
    侵占,侵害,侵犯(个人领域,权利)
    rather than encroach on his privacy she might have kept to her room.
    她本来可以呆在自己的房间里而不去干涉他的隐私。
    ■advance gradually and in a way that causes damage
    侵蚀
    the sea has encroached all round the coast.
    海水侵蚀了整个海岸。
派生
encroacher
noun
encroachment
noun
语源
  1. 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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