侵入する
解説 Definition
encroaching は encroach（侵入する、侵害する）の現在分詞・動名詞です。土地や領域、権利などに少しずつ入り込むことを表し、物理的な侵入にも抽象的な侵害にも使われます。
Encroaching describes gradually entering, covering, or taking over space, territory, rights, or freedom that belongs to someone or something else. It is the present participle or gerund of encroach and is commonly followed by on or upon.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
encroach「少しずつ侵入・侵害する」に -ing を付けた現在分詞・動名詞で、綴りはそのまま encroaching です。急に押し入る invade と違い、海や建物、規則が境界を徐々に越える感覚が中心です。encroach on the village、encroach on freedom のように、対象の前に on を置く型で覚えます。
Encroaching is formed by adding -ing to encroach without changing the spelling of the base. Think of a boundary being crossed little by little: the sea moves closer to a village each year, buildings spread into a park, or regulations reduce personal freedom. This gradual pressure distinguishes encroach from invade, which often suggests a more direct and forceful entry. Learn the standard pattern encroach on or encroach upon something. The -ing form may describe an ongoing process, as in “The sea is encroaching,” or modify a noun, as in “encroaching development.”
例文
The sea is encroaching on the village each year.
海が毎年その村に迫ってきています。
New buildings are encroaching on the old park.
新しい建物が古い公園の敷地に入り込んできています。
The committee worried about rules encroaching on personal freedom.
委員会は、規則が個人の自由を侵害することを心配しました。
encroaching の類義語・関連語
encroaching の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古フランス語のencrochier（かぎ爪で引っかけ回す）に由来します。接頭辞en-（～の中へ）と語根croch（フック）から成り、フックで徐々に引き寄せる様子から、領域や権利を少しずつ奪う「侵入する」の意味へ発展しました。同語根にcrochet（かぎ針編み）があります。
Encroaching is the -ing form of encroach. Encroach entered English from Anglo-French and is related to an Old French verb containing a root meaning a hook or crook. The earlier image was of seizing or appropriating something, as though catching it with a hook. From that developed the modern sense of advancing gradually into another person’s land, space, rights, or freedom.
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