invade

[inĀ·vade]

When you Invade, you aggressively take over or occupy a place. If a country's leader wants to gain more land, the military might invade a neighboring country.

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To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress.

Verb
march aggressively into another''s territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"

Verb
penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way; "The cancer had invaded her lungs"

Verb
to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new colleague invades my territory"; "The neighbors intrude on your privacy"

Verb
occupy in large numbers or live on a host; "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"


v. t.
To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress.

v. t.
To enter with hostile intentions; to enter with a view to conquest or plunder; to make an irruption into; to attack; as, the Romans invaded Great Britain.

v. t.
To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people.

v. t.
To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.

v. i.
To make an invasion.


Invade

In*vade" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Invaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Invading.] [L. invadere, invasum; pref. in- in + vadere to go, akin to E. wade: cf. OF. invader, F. envahir. See Wade.] 1. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress. [Obs.]
Which becomes a body, and doth then invade The state of life, out of the grisly shade.
2. To enter with hostile intentions; to enter with a view to conquest or plunder; to make an irruption into; to attack; as, the Romans invaded Great Britain.
Such an enemy Is risen to invade us.
3. To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people. 4. To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue. Syn. -- To attack; assail; encroach upon. See Attack.

Invade

In*vade", v. i. To make an invasion. Brougham.

To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress.

To make an invasion.

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Usage Examples

You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.

Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.

Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information.

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

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Other Usage Examples

I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Think of what happened after 9/11, the minute before there was any assessment, there was glee in the administration because now we can invade Iraq, and so the war drums beat.

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

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