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TRESPASSING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does trespassing mean?
• TRESPASSING (adjective)
The adjective TRESPASSING has 1 sense:
1. gradually intrusive without right or permission
Familiarity information: TRESPASSING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Gradually intrusive without right or permission
Synonyms:
encroaching; invasive; trespassing
Context example:
trespassing hunters
Similar:
intrusive (tending to intrude (especially upon privacy))
Context examples
They arrested three for "suspicion of trespassing" and another for an incident related to alcohol.
(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)
If ever there was a donkey trespassing on my green, said my aunt, with emphasis, there was one this afternoon at four o'clock.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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