encroachment
en krohch muhnt
- n any entry into an area not previously occupied
- n entry to another's property without right or permission
- n influencing strongly
- While some protest indignantly at the latest encroachment on their space to light up, others welcome the elimination of clouds of smoke outside classrooms.
- The communists' victory had vanquished the Nationalist regime, withstood the vicious onslaught of the Japanese invasion and overturned the century of foreign encroachment on China .
- Azzam, a Palestinian, was the most prominent advocate of a jihad to save the Muslim lands from infidel encroachment.