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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. gradually intrusive without right or permission;
- Example: "we moved back from the encroaching tide"
- Example: "invasive tourists"
- Example: "trespassing hunters"
[syn: encroaching(a), invasive, trespassing(a)]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Trespass \Tres"pass\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trespassed; p. pr. & vb. n. Trespassing.] [OF. trespasser to go across or over, transgress, F. tr['e]passer to die; pref. tres- (L. trans across, over) + passer to pass. See Pass, v. i., and cf. Transpass.] 1. To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Soon after this, noble Robert de Bruce . . . trespassed out of this uncertain world. --Ld. Berners. [1913 Webster] 2. (Law) To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another. [1913 Webster] 3. To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another. [1913 Webster] 4. To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against. [1913 Webster] In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord. --2 Chron. xxviii. 22. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

trespassing adj 1: gradually intrusive without right or permission; "we moved back from the encroaching tide"; "invasive tourists"; "trespassing hunters" [syn: encroaching(a), invasive, trespassing(a)]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

38 Moby Thesaurus words for "trespassing": adoption, appropriation, arrogation, assumption, breach of law, contravention, encroachment, entrance, entrenchment, impingement, imposition, incursion, infiltration, influx, infraction, infringement, injection, inroad, insinuation, interference, interjection, interloping, interposition, interposure, interruption, intervention, intrusion, invasion, irruption, lawbreaking, obtrusion, playing God, seizure, transgression, trespass, unlawful entry, usurpation, violation of law