What is another word for encroaching?

Pronunciation: [ɛnkɹˈə͡ʊt͡ʃɪŋ] (IPA)

Encroaching refers to something that is gradually advancing or intruding upon something else. There are many synonyms for encroaching that can be used to describe this process, such as creeping, encumbering, crowding, or invading. Other options include impinging, infringing, trespassing, encaching, or encroaching on. When something is encroaching, it is taking over, encircling, or encompassing something else, so words like engulfing, consuming, and swallowing could also be used as synonyms. In summary, there are a variety of synonyms for encroaching that can be used to convey different nuances of this process, depending on the context and intended meaning.

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What are the opposite words for encroaching?

Antonyms for the word "encroaching" include retreating, withdrawing, receding, and retracting. Retreating implies a voluntary movement backward, while withdrawing suggests removing oneself from a situation. Receding implies a gradual movement backward, while retracting suggests retracting something back. Other antonyms include yielding, conceding, relinquishing, and foregoing. Yielding suggests giving way to let another pass, while conceding implies acknowledging the other party's request. Relinquishing refers to giving up something willingly, while foregoing means to abstain from something for a particular reason. Choosing the right antonym for encroaching depends on the context in which the word is used.

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Usage examples for Encroaching

They passed through quite an arcade cut in the wood, whose rich growth of wondrous canes and creepers was rapidly encroaching upon the narrow space, and sending out long waving strands as if in greeting to others upon the opposite side.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
In Ivey's absence he stripped to the waist, and with his long coat essayed to beat the little flames out as they spread and leapt, the blue and yellow surf of the encroaching tide; but for one he extinguished he fanned a hundred, so he retreated before he was flayed alive.
"Peccavi"
E. W. Hornung
For instance, the north-eastern edge of the water is continually encroaching on the land, eating away the sandy soil, showing that the prevalent winds are south and west.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies

Famous quotes with Encroaching

  • One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
    James K. Polk
  • The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
    Dan Quayle
  • This soiree must have been so big that if held today, we’d call it a war. Or at least a riot. On and on. So-and-so of such-and-such, with Lady Who’s-is, sixteen titles, four of which made sense. By the time the heralds finished proclaiming everyone, the party must have died of encroaching senility.
    Glen Cook
  • Talk had faded with the daylight. The silence that set in was oppressive. The encroaching dark, the groundmist collecting into small, curdled pools...for the first time it seemed perfectly real and totally unnatural, and he wanted either Jan or his mother, some woman, and he wondered what in the hell he was doing and how he ever could have gotten involved. He could not even kid himself that everything had not been up front, because it had been. And he hadn't even done it alone. There were currently ninety-five other fools in this parade.
    Stephen King
  • No one thinks or feels or appreciates or lives a mental-emotional-imaginative life at all, except in terms of the artificial reference-points supply'd him by the enveloping body of race-tradition and heritage into which he is born. We form an emotionally realisable picture of the external world, and an emotionally endurable set of illusions as to values and directions in existence, solely and exclusively through the arbitrary concepts and folkways bequeathed to us through our traditional culture-stream. Without this stream around us we are absolutely adrift in a meaningless and irrelevant chaos which has not the least capacity to give us any satisfaction apart from the trifling animal ones . . . Without our nationality—that is, our culture-grouping—we are merely wretched nuclei of agony and bewilderment in the midst of alien and directionless emptiness . . . We have an Aryan heritage, a Western-European heritage, a Teutonic-Celtic heritage, an Anglo-Saxon or English heritage, an Anglo-American heritage, and so on—but we can't detach one layer from another without serious loss—loss of a sense of significance and orientation in the world. America without England is absolutely meaningless to a civilised man of any generation yet grown to maturity. The breaking of the saving tie is leaving these colonies free to build up a repulsive new culture of money, speed, quantity, novelty, and industrial slavery, but that future culture is not ours, and has no meaning for us . . . Possibly the youngest generation already born and mentally active—boys of ten to fifteen—will tend to belong to it, as indeed a widespread shift in their tastes and instincts and loyalties would seem to indicate. But to say all this has anything to do with us is a joke! These boys are the Bedes and Almins of a new, encroaching, and apparently inferior culture. We are the Boëthii and Symmachi and Cassiodori of an older and perhaps dying culture. It is to our interest to keep our own culture alive as long as we can—and if possible to reserve and defend certain areas against the onslaughts of the enemy.
    H. P. Lovecraft

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