Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. i.) To advance beyond proper limits; to trespass; to intrude; as, to encroach on a neighbor's land; to encroach on the highway. 2. (n.) Encroachment.

Multi-Version Concordance Encroach (2 Occurrences) Deuteronomy 2:37 only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn't come near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us. (See NIV) Proverbs 23:10 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless: (WEB NIV)