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Accroach
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verb
accroach
v. t.
1.
To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook. (Obs.)
2.
To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives.
"They had attempted to accroach to themselves royal power."
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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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"Accroach" Quotes from Famous Books
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201; dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp; tear from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from; extort; deprive of, bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling. oust &c (eject) 297; divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate;
accroach
^; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume^, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb &c (suck in) 296; draw off; suck the blood of, suck
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