Significados de encroach so en inglés

Only the English could feel confident enough to allow the wild to encroach so far within a civilized space.

My Lords, I did not intend to encroach so much on your attention, but I cannot repress my indignation- Ifeelmyself impelled to speak.

His arm had encroached so far that it was around her neck.

How would they be able to apprehend him, with the water encroaching so fast?

Having pocketed a queen for himself, he need not have encroached so keenly on my personal naiad.

In the narrowest parts of the creek the forest encroached so heavily that the sunlight reached us in ribbons.

These were now large and bushy, and had encroached so much on his chin as to have become almost a beard.