encroach – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of encroach

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to encroach
Participle: encroached
Gerund: encroaching

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Iencroach
youencroach
he;she;itencroaches
weencroach
youencroach
theyencroach

Perfect

Ihave encroached
youhave encroached
he;she;ithas encroached
wehave encroached
youhave encroached
theyhave encroached

Past

Iencroached
youencroached
he;she;itencroached
weencroached
youencroached
theyencroached

Pluperfect

Ihad encroached
youhad encroached
he;she;ithad encroached
wehad encroached
youhad encroached
theyhad encroached

Future

Iwill encroach
youwill encroach
he;she;itwill encroach
wewill encroach
youwill encroach
theywill encroach

Future Perfect

Iwill have encroached
youwill have encroached
he;she;itwill have encroached
wewill have encroached
youwill have encroached
theywill have encroached

Subjunctive

Present

Iencroach
youencroach
he;she;itencroach
weencroach
youencroach
theyencroach

Perfect

Ihave encroached
youhave encroached
he;she;ithave encroached
wehave encroached
youhave encroached
theyhave encroached

Imperfect

Iencroached
youencroached
he;she;itencroached
weencroached
youencroached
theyencroached

Pluperfect

Ihad encroached
youhad encroached
he;she;ithad encroached
wehad encroached
youhad encroached
theyhad encroached

Conditional

Present

Iwould encroach
youwould encroach
he;she;itwould encroach
wewould encroach
youwould encroach
theywould encroach

Perfect

Iwould have encroached
youwould have encroached
he;she;itwould have encroached
wewould have encroached
youwould have encroached
theywould have encroached

Imperative

youencroach
weLet's encroach
youencroach

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam encroaching
youare encroaching
he;she;itis encroaching
weare encroaching
youare encroaching
theyare encroaching

Perfect

Ihave been encroaching
youhave been encroaching
he;she;ithas been encroaching
wehave been encroaching
youhave been encroaching
theyhave been encroaching

Past

Iwas encroaching
youwere encroaching
he;she;itwas encroaching
wewere encroaching
youwere encroaching
theywere encroaching

Pluperfect

Ihad been encroaching
youhad been encroaching
he;she;ithad been encroaching
wehad been encroaching
youhad been encroaching
theyhad been encroaching

Future

Iwill be encroaching
youwill be encroaching
he;she;itwill be encroaching
wewill be encroaching
youwill be encroaching
theywill be encroaching

Future Perfect

Iwill have been encroaching
youwill have been encroaching
he;she;itwill have been encroaching
wewill have been encroaching
youwill have been encroaching
theywill have been encroaching

Conditional

Present

Iwould be encroaching
youwould be encroaching
he;she;itwould be encroaching
wewould be encroaching
youwould be encroaching
theywould be encroaching

Perfect

Iwould have been encroaching
youwould have been encroaching
he;she;itwould have been encroaching
wewould have been encroaching
youwould have been encroaching
theywould have been encroaching

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'encroach'

abash, abolish, abroach, accomplish, accroach, address, admix, admonish, ado, adpress, affamish, affix, alloo, amass, ambush, anguish, annex, appeach, appears, approach, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

infringe
extravagate, overlap, intrude, transgress, invade, overstep, trespass, impinge

Antonyms

infringe
obey, promise, observe, comply

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1325, from O.Fr. encrochier "seize, fasten on, perch," lit. "to catch with a hook," from en- "in" + croc "hook," from O.N. krokr "hook." Sense of "trespass" is first recorded c.1534.
2. From Middle English encrochen, from Old French encrochier (“to seize”), from Old French en- + croc (“hook”), of Germanic origin. More at crook. See: Old French 'encrochier'.

Sample Sentences

  • [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:]
  • Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce. / But all this glee had no continuaunce: / For eftsones winter gan to approche; / The blustering Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the solitarie Brere; / For nowe no succoure was seene him nere. [1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: Conteyning Tvvelue Æglogues Proportionable to the Twelue Monethes. Entitled to the Noble and Vertuous Gentleman most Worthy of all Titles both of Learning and Cheualrie M. Philip Sidney, London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, dwelling in Creede Lane neere vnto Ludgate at the signe of the gylden Tunne, and are there to be solde, OCLC 606515406; republished in Francis J[ames] Child, editor, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: The Text Carefully Revised, and Illustrated with Notes, Original and Selected by Francis J. Child: Five Volumes in Three, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; The Riverside Press, Cambridge, published 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228]
  • Because change itself would absolutely stay-stable, and again, conversely, stability itself would change, if each of them encroached on the other. [2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 252d:]
  • I won’t encroach on your time any longer.
  • He never allows work to encroach upon his family life.
  • Gradually the negative feelings encroached into her work.