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verbincroach (third-person singular simple present incroaches, present participle incroaching, simple past and past participle incroached)
present singular third person incroaches · participle present incroaching · participle past incroached · past incroached
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of encroach.
[D]rowſie drouping Age, / incroaching on apace, / With penſiue Plough will raze your hue / and Beauties beames deface.
1567, George Turbervil[l]e, “The Louer Exhorteth His Ladie to Take Time, while Time is”, in Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets, with a Discourse of the Friendly Affections of Tymetes to Pyndara His Ladie. […], London: […] Henry Denham, →OCLC, folios 32, verso – 33, recto
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incroach. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incroach
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“incroach.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incroach. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “incroach,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incroach.
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