Inroad

Quick meaning: Inroad is a noun meaning (military, also figuratively) An advance into enemy territory, an attempted invasion; an encroachment, an incursion.

Meaning

(military, also figuratively) An advance into enemy territory, an attempted invasion; an encroachment, an incursion.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, archaic) To make advances or incursions.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To make an inroad into (something).
3. (figuratively, usually in the plural) Often followed by in, into, or on: initial progress made toward accomplishing a goal or solving a problem.

Example Sentences

[T]he Britains, left to ſhift for themſelves, and daily haraſſed by cruel Inroads from the Picts, were forced to call in the Saxons for their Defence; […]

The brave and active Conſtantius delivered Gaul from a very furious inroad of the Alemanni; and his victories of Langres and Vindoniſſa appear to have been actions of conſiderable danger and merit.

[A] child knowing the heate of fire, will as readely iudge of the perrill, as the wiſeſt Senatour, of the inroad of a borderer, or the politick captaine, of the vnequall encoũter with his enimy, […]

[A] certain English colonel passed though the former's country with a body of men-at-arms, on the very day when the O'Mahonys had made an inroad upon our territories, and carried off a frightful plunder of our flocks and herds.

Word Forms

• inroads
• inroading
• inroaded

Synonyms for inroad

Depending on context, synonyms include foray, inbreak, inbreaking, infall, raid, invade.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include encroachment, foray, infall, intake, onrush, illapse.

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