encroach

Roughly midway through, Pynchon’s characters hightail it all the way to proto-fascist Budapest, where shadows more lethal than any Tommy gun begin to encroach.

Add in encroaching fascism, and it just felt like too much.

Throughout the play, this “law and order” blue encroaches on the existence of every color selected by Torres.

Human settlements have encroached paths of rivers and floodplains, both in the mountains and plains, blocking their way.

Signs have now been erected by the Thai authorities warning Cambodians that they have been illegally encroaching on Thai territory.