Encroaching

verb

Word Frequency: 0.6

Definitions

1.verbTo seize, appropriate

2.verbTo intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory

3.verbTo advance gradually beyond due limits

4.adjectiveThat encroaches.

"She could hardly see anything in the encroaching darkness."

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