'Trespassing' definitions:
Definition of 'trespassing'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Gradually intrusive without right or permission; "we moved back from the encroaching tide"; "invasive tourists"; "trespassing hunters" [syn: encroaching(a), invasive, trespassing(a)]
Definition of 'Trespassing'
From: GCIDE
- Trespass \Tres"pass\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trespassed; p. pr. & vb. n. Trespassing.] [OF. trespasser to go across or over, transgress, F. tr['e]passer to die; pref. tres- (L. trans across, over) + passer to pass. See Pass, v. i., and cf. Transpass.]
- 1. To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Soon after this, noble Robert de Bruce . . . trespassed out of this uncertain world. --Ld. Berners. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Law) To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against. [1913 Webster]
- In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord. --2 Chron. xxviii. 22. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'trespassing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adoption,
- appropriation,
- arrogation,
- assumption,
- breach of law,
- contravention,
- encroachment,
- entrance,
- entrenchment,
- impingement,
- imposition,
- incursion,
- infiltration,
- influx,
- infraction,
- infringement,
- injection,
- inroad,
- insinuation,
- interference,
- interjection,
- interloping,
- interposition,
- interposure,
- interruption,
- intervention,
- intrusion,
- invasion,
- irruption,
- lawbreaking,
- obtrusion,
- playing God,
- seizure,
- transgression,
- trespass,
- unlawful entry,
- usurpation,
- violation of law