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encroachedverbpast tense of encroach to advance gradually beyond the usual or desirable limitseach year the sea continues to encroach upon the island's beaches crept, inched, wormed snaked, sneaked(or snuck)entrenched(also intrenched), impinged, infringed, intruded, invadedoverpassed, overran, overreached, overshot, overstepped |