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say it: TREH-spas
trespass is a verb and noun meaning "enter unlawfully on someone's property". It carries 7 recorded senses.
enter unlawfully on someone's property
“Don't trespass on my land!”
make excessive use of
“You are taking advantage of my good will!”
“She is trespassing upon my privacy”
break the law
commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
a wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages
entry to another's property without right or permission
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for trespass come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.