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Encroaching

To seize, appropriate

📖 Definitions of "Encroaching"

verb
  1. 1

    To seize, appropriate

  2. 2

    To intrude unrightfully on someone else’s rights or territory

  3. 3

    To advance gradually beyond due limits

adjective
  1. 1

    That encroaches.

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

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