trespass
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English trespas, from Old French trespas (“passage; offense against the law”), from trespasser.
Inflected forms:
form: trespasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trespasses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trespassing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trespassed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trespassed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An intentional interference with another's property or person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: External infrastructure issues such as severe weather and trespass caused 17.1% of [train] cancellations, [...].
Network Rail has produced a free downloadable comic highlighting the consequences of railway trespass. Between March 23 and April 26, there were 1,024 trespass incidents on the railway. [...] it is based on the company's award-winning safety film 18, which shows the dangers of trespass, especially around electrified lines.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka "committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings" to leave Delaney Hall, a facility being run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), according to acting US attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba.
gloss: sin
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us
gloss: To commit an offence; to sin.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord.
gloss: To offend against, to wrong (someone).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: And forgeve us oure trespases, even as we forgeve them which trespas us.
gloss: To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to trespass upon the time or patience of another
"Indeed I have, sir," was her answer. "She is a great deal too ill to be moved. Mr. Jones says we must not think of moving her. We must trespass a little longer on your kindness."
gloss: To enter someone else's property illegally.
pos: verb
gloss: To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: 1523–1525, Jean Froissart, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles
Soon after this, noble Robert de Bruce […] trespassed out of this uncertain world.
gloss: To subject [someone] to a trespass notice, formally notifying them that they are prohibited from entry to a property, such that any current or future presence there will constitute trespass, (especially) criminal trespass
pos: verb
tags: New-Zealand
especially
transitive
examples: The dean trespassed the streaker from his university.
A year ago a sheep-man was allowing his flocks to trespass on another public-domain licensee. At his third offense, after warnings, he was "trespassed" and given a fairly stiff fine and a warning that a fourth offense would cost him his grazing rights.
"I only grabbed your arm because I wanted to trespass you," the man said.
"What the hell does that mean?" I replied.
The man walked into the building and came out with a laminated plastic card, like the one police use when they are reading suspects their rights. He read a warning: "You are hereby notified that you are trespassing on private property. If you do not leave this property, you will be guilty of trespass under Nevada Revised Statutes... etc., etc."
Having been so "trespassed," I then decided it was prudent to leave.
The entire police force has in effect been trespassed from a Wellington property to stop officers checking whether a heavy-sleeping offender is complying with an overnight bail curfew.
Related words: traipse
Derived words: anti-trespass
antitrespass
cybertrespass
light trespass
trespass offering
trespass on the case
trespassory
trespass to chattels
nontrespass
trespassee
trespasser
untrespassed
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