Thesaurus: trespass

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1. v. i. To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
2. v. i. To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. v. Any injury or offence done to another.
6. v. Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.
7. v. An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another.
8. v. An action for injuries accompanied with force.
9. n. a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages
10. n. entry to another's property without right or permission
11. v. enter unlawfully on someone's property
12. v. make excessive use of