accroaching

Verb

accroach (third-person singular simple present accroaches, present participle accroaching, simple past and past participle accroached)

1. (transitive) To hook, or draw to oneself as with a hook.
2. (transitive) To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives.
   • They had attempted to accroach to themselves the royal power.1874-1878, William Stubbs, Constitutional History of England
3. (intransitive) To encroach.