Synonyms:
encroaching(a), invasive, trespassing(a)
Meaning: gradually intrusive without right or permission; "we moved back from the encroaching tide"; "invasive tourists"; "trespassing hunters"
Usage examples
The age in him held out secret hands to the age in her--as against encroaching and rebellious youth.
They looked about, and now the thing was sinking, and Minnie heard the low sip of the encroaching water.
The town was built on the edge of the woods, the north side touching the timber, the south encroaching on the prairie.
He had thundered at Mike as if Mike had been his Majesty's Government or the Encroaching Alien, or something of that sort.
On the "bottom side" of the river, the alluvial terrace presents a sheer wall of clay rising from eight to a dozen feet above the beach, which is often thick-grown with willows, whose roots hold the soil from becoming too easy a prey to the encroaching current.
And, perhaps, the efforts which the aristocrats are making here, as well as in every other part of Europe, to secure their sway, will be the most effectual mode of undermining it, taking into the calculation that the King of Sweden, like most of the potentates of Europe, has continually been augmenting his power by encroaching on the privileges of the nobles.