[ɛnˈkrəʊtʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- intrude on (a person's territory, rights, personal life, etc.)
(e.g: rather than encroach on his privacy she might have kept to her room)


Phrases:

Origin:
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)