trespassing
Meaning of trespassing
verb, gerund or present participle
- enter someone's land or property without permission.
there is no excuse for trespassing on railway property
- commit an offence against (a person or a set of rules).
a man who had trespassed against Judaic law
Middle English (in trespass (sense 2 of the verb)): from Old French trespasser ‘pass over, trespass’, trespas ‘passing across’, from medieval Latin transpassare (see trans-, pass1).
Information about trespassing
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of trespassing
tres-pass-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- trespassing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
trespassing synonyms
Meaning encroaching:
Meaning (of an armed force) enter (a country or region) so as to subjugate or occupy it:
Meaning actively break the terms of (a law, agreement, etc.):
Meaning act unjustly or dishonestly towards:
Meaning commit an illegal act:
Meaning cause (someone) anxiety, sorrow, or pain:
Words that rhyme with trespassing
sing, Christmasing, Dephasing, abasing, abrasing, aliasing, antialiasing, appeasing, basing, biasing, brainteasing, canvasing, carcasing, casing, ceasing, chasing, creasing, databasing, debasing, deceasing, decreasing, degreasing, dephasing, discasing, diseasing, displeasing, dyscrasing, easing, embasing, encasing, enchasing, encreasing, erasing, feasing, freebasing, goliasing, greasing, imbasing, impleasing, incasing, inchasing, increasing, interchasing, lasing, leasing, liasing, lowercasing, masing, measing, metaphrasing
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