encroaching 的定义
- to advance beyond proper, established, or usual limits; make gradual inroads: A dictatorship of the majority is encroaching on the rights of the individual.
- to trespass upon the property, domain, or rights of another, especially stealthily or by gradual advances.
encroaching 近义词
invade another's property, business
更多encroaching例句
- Yet even with that information in hand, the report’s unidentified author expressed concern that the FBI might be encroaching on free speech rights.
- If we allow the principle of digital sovereignty to encroach further, cloud service providers will be bound by national interests, and consumers will bear significant costs.
- I began to miss rural Pennsylvania as the pandemic encroached into summer.
- The flexibility did carry an occasional side effect of home life encroaching on the working world, and vice versa, often providing a uniquely 2020 kind of amusement.
- The timing of the regulatory changes proposed by Beijing was a statement unto itself, since it encroached on Singles Day, the ultimate showcase of Alibaba’s sway.
- The parallels Hong Kong readers find between the encroaching Titans and China have made it a huge success there.
- “Scorched earth,” historically, means destroying land to deprive the encroaching enemy of its use.
- “I realized these rude people were encroaching upon my personal life—my own fault, mind you—for opening the door,” he said.
- When he falls in love with human Grace, he must fight the encroaching winter and the change it will bring.
- Or will this encroaching uneasiness with Obama stay limited to this one snapshot in time in this one Southern state?
- Mr. Campbell smiled and said, "she is encroaching on your goodness already, Madam, and would bring all my family with her."
- Encroaching upon functions of subordinates prohibited; orders to be definite.
- The dense shadows as yet unconquered by the encroaching whiteness gave the Campagna the aspect of a desert.
- Islam has neither intention nor design of encroaching upon the spiritual preserves of Christendom.
- In no long time after this the town was wholly absorbed by the encroaching waters.