encroach
/ɪŋˈkɹəʊtʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.49 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "[D]rowſie drouping Age, / incroaching on apace, / With penſiue Plough will raze your hue / and Beauties beames deface."
- "Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere."
- "Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely, stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other."
- "I won’t encroach on your time any longer."
- "He never allows work to encroach upon his family life."
- "Gradually the negative feelings encroached into her work."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: encrochen, encrochier, en-, -
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ɪŋˈkɹəʊtʃ/