Invade

/ɪnˈveɪd/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To move into..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To move into.
2. (transitive) To enter by force, usually in order to conquer.
3. (transitive) To infest or overrun.
4. To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.
5. To make an unwelcome or uninvited visit or appearance, usually with an intent to cause trouble or some other unpleasant situation.

Example Sentences

Under some circumstances police are allowed to invade a person's privacy.

Which becomes a body, and doth then invade / The state of life, out of the griesly shade.

Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982.

After shaking off a pre-dawn counterattack on Tinian Monday, the American forces that invaded that island Sunday broadened and deepened their hold. Heavy casualties were inflicted on the Japanese in breaking up the attack and five enemy tanks destroyed.

When a typical gaffe has him invading the Beagle and trying to rob Charles Darwin (David Tennant), he learns that his beloved “parrot” Polly is actually a dodo bird.

[…] Polycrates' encomium on mice dwelt upon their service to the Egyptians in gnawing the bowstrings and shield handles of invading enemies, while Philostratus, praising hair, gave examples of long-haired heroes at Troy. Appion's praise of adultery recalls the love affairs of Zeus and other gods, and Libanus stresses the good parentage of Thersites, ugliest of the Greeks who fought against Troy. But for all their diversity of individual arguments, the overall pattern for these playful or "adoxographic" works remains that of the serious encomium, and their subject matter can conveniently be grouped under the three broad headings of vice, disease, and animals.

“This is the competition,” Ryan said. “And if we can’t have a national conversation about the red China communist government trying to displace us, looking the other way when Russia invades Ukraine and trying to outfox us at every turn … then we’re all going to be speaking Mandarin in 10 or 15 years.”

And this year, some of the granite facades have a new addition - the blue and yellow of the flag of Ukraine. It's hardly surprising to see the Scots, a nation more attuned to independence than some, showing solidarity with a country brutally invaded by Russia.

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• invades
• invading
• invaded

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