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• scrub: Volunteers will remove encroaching scrub from special scrapes cleared to provide ideal butterfly habitat.

• vegetation: Sites quickly disappeared under encroaching vegetation, recognizable only by mounds of slag; mines filled with water.

• darkness: Steven Erikson's powerful, angry, hopeful story shines a brave light on the encroaching darkness.

• cloud: Almost clear sky at first but broken cloud encroached during the morning.

• desert: Here we have a beautiful country estate, a haven of peace and tranquility, an oasis in an ever encroaching desert.

• sea: Some local people in certain areas of coastal Alaska have to contemplate moving to avoid the encroaching seas.

Preposition: on

• territory: In 1753 Virginia warned the French on the Ohio that they were encroaching on British territory.

• land: It did not encroach on the recreational land in any way.

• space: In your first active missions the aliens start to encroach on the human space.

Preposition: onto

• land: Hogweed is chiefly a problem on pasture but may encroach onto arable land from the hedgerow or headland.

Modifying Another Word

• steadily: Beyond it, steadily encroaching onto the dusty, poverty-ridden streets of the town lies the western margin of the great Sahara desert.

• gradually: These Semitic tribes had been gradually encroaching into the northern delta area taking control of much of the land in the north of Egypt.

• rapidly: In the eighteenth century the Newtonian universe was rapidly encroaching.

• increasingly: Indeed, the legal profession has already found its territory is being increasingly encroached upon from exactly such outside professions.

• fast: But these days, mobile phones are fast encroaching on the camera market and you might be thinking of upgrading.

• ever: Now there were new laws, designed to protect the space needed by the living from the ever encroaching population of the dead.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• upon: However the thing they liked about these ads was that they didn't encroach upon their focus, the articles.

• on: This stage was composed largely of chalk blocks, quarried from the hillside it was beginning to encroach on.

Preposition: upon

• coverage: Access to capital encroaches upon coverage are quot laid cost of car.

• land: This resulted in the surrounding householders encroaching upon this land by extending their gardens.