encroach
verb
[ ɪnˈkrəʊtʃ ]
• intrude on (a person's territory, rights, personal life, etc.).
• "rather than encroach on his privacy she might have kept to her room"
Similar:
intrude,
trespass,
impinge,
butt in,
barge in,
cut in,
obtrude,
impose oneself,
invade,
infiltrate,
interrupt,
infringe,
violate,
interfere with,
disturb,
disrupt,
tread on someone's toes,
step on someone's toes,
gatecrash,
horn in on,
muscle in on,
invade someone's space,
entrench on,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘obtain unlawfully, seize’; formerly also as incroach ): from Old French encrochier ‘seize, fasten upon’, from en- ‘in, on’ + crochier (from croc ‘hook’, from Old Norse krókr ).
