trespass
v.
commit the offense of damaging a person or his property or rights; unlawfully enter into another's territory, intrude; err or sin
n.
offense of damaging a person or his property or rights; unlawfully entry into another's territory, intrusion; err or sin
Trespass
trespass
Noun
1. a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages
(hypernym) tort, civil wrong
(hyponym) continuing trespass
2. entry to another's property without right or permission
(synonym) encroachment, violation, intrusion, usurpation
(hypernym) wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus
(hyponym) inroad
(derivation) intrude
Verb
1. enter unlawfully on someone's property; "Don't trespass on my land!"
(synonym) intrude
(hypernym) transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, break
(hyponym) break in, break
(see-also) take advantage
(derivation) encroachment, violation, intrusion, usurpation
2. make excessive use of; "You are taking advantage of my good will!"; "She is trespassing upon my privacy"
(synonym) take advantage
(hypernym) use
(hyponym) impinge, encroach, entrench, trench
3. break the law
(hypernym) transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, break
4. commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
(synonym) sin, transgress
(hypernym) transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, break
(hyponym) fall
5. pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
(synonym) transgress, overstep
(hypernym) pass, go through, go across
Trespass
(v.)
Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.
(v.)
Any injury or offence done to another.
(v.)
An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another.
(v.)
An action for injuries accompanied with force.
(v. i.)
To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
(v. i.)
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.
(v. i.)
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.
(v. i.)
To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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