Word Meanings - TRESPASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another. 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. 4. To commit any offense, or

Additional info about word: TRESPASS

To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another. 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. 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. In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord. 2 Chron. xxviii. 22. (more info) F. trépasser to die; pref. tres- + passer to 1. To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go. Soon after this, noble Robert de Bruce . . . trespassed out of this uncertain world. Ld. Berners.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRESPASS)

• Depredation
• Havoc
• robbery
• spoliation
• plunder
• trespass
• invasion
• encroachment
• Encroach
• Invade
• intrude
• transgress
• infringe
• Indiscretion
• Misconduct
• misbehavior
• misdoing
• misdeed
• dereliction
• delinquency
• lapse
• trip
• slip
• flaw
• blot
• omission
• peccadillo
• Inroad
• Invasion
• raid
• incursion
• dragonnade
• irruption
• infringement
• Intrenchment
• Ditch
• dyke
• moat
• circumvallation

Related words: (words related to TRESPASS)

• ENCROACHER
  One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• INVADE
  1. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress. Which becomes a body, and doth then invade The state of life, out of the grisly shade. Spenser. 2. To enter with hostile intentions; to enter
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• INFRINGER
  One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
• PECCADILLO
  A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime or fault. Sir W. Scott.
• DITCHER
  One who digs ditches.
• MISDERIVE
  1. To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect. Bp. Hall. 2. To derive erroneously.
• INVADER
  One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.
• DERELICTION
  A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained. (more info) 1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other
• TRANSGRESSIVE
  Disposed or tending to transgress; faulty; culpable. -
• LAPSE
  1. To let slip; to permit to devolve on another; to allow to pass. An appeal may be deserted by the appellant's lapsing the term of law. Ayliffe. 2. To surprise in a fault or error; hence, to surprise or catch, as an offender. For which, if be
• MISCONDUCT
  To behave amiss.
• TRANSGRESS
  1. To pass over or beyond; to surpass. Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law. Dryden. 2. Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the For man will hearken to his glozing lies, And easily transgress the sole command. Milton. 3. To
• MISDEAL
  The act of misdealing; a wrong distribution of cards to the players.
• MISDOING
  A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense; as, it was my misdoing.
• INTRUDE
  The cause to enter or force a way, as into the crevices of rocks. Syn. -- To obtrude; encroach; infringe; intrench; trespass. See Obtrude. (more info) 1. To thrust or force in or upon; especially, to force in without leave or welcome; as, to
• TRESPASS
  1. Any injury or offence done to another. I you forgive all wholly this trespass. Chaucer. If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Matt. vi. 15. 2. Any voluntary transgression of the moral law;
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.
• DESPOLIATION
  A stripping or plundering; spoliation. Bailey.
• PROLAPSE
  The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum. Dunglison.
• DELAPSE
  To pass down by inheritance; to lapse. Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip. Drayton.
• UNDERDITCH
  To dig an underground ditches in, so as to drain the surface; to underdrain; as, to underditch a field or a farm.
• INTRANSGRESSIBLE
  Incapable of being transgressed; not to be passes over or crossed. Holland.
• MISDOUBT
  To be suspicious of; to have suspicion. I do not misdoubt my wife. Shak.