Definition of "encroaching" []

• Describing something that encroaches. (adjective)
• Present participle of encroach. (verb)

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• "The American Federation of Labor and its affiliated unions, I may say, are not interested in encroaching upon or taking over the functions of management."
• "The fragrant wind encroaching from the woods, bringing its sweet odors, swept the smoke sidewise like an inverted curtain."
• "To him the idea of encroaching upon the ancestral acres of a von"