Invade

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.]
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     1. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to


        enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress. [Obs.]
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              Which becomes a body, and doth then invade
              The state of life, out of the grisly shade.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     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.
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              Such an enemy
              Is risen to invade us.                --Milton.
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     3. To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as,
        the king invaded the rights of the people.
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     4. To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and
        progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.
  
     Syn: To attack; assail; encroach upon. See {Attack}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Invade \In*vade"\, v. i.
     To make an invasion. --Brougham.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  invade
       v 1: march aggressively into another's territory by military
            force for the purposes of conquest and occupation;
            "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939" [syn: {occupy}]
       2: to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new
          colleague invades my territory"; "The neighbors intrude on
          your privacy" [syn: {intrude on}, {obtrude upon}, {encroach
          upon}]
       3: occupy in large numbers or live on a host; "the Kudzu plant
          infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"
          [syn: {overrun}, {infest}]
       4: penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way; "The
          cancer had invaded her lungs"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "invade":
     adopt, advance upon, appropriate, arrogate, assume, barge in,
     beset, board, break bounds, break in, break in upon, burst in,
     butt in, charge in, come between, crash, crash in, crash the gates,
     crawl with, creep in, creep with, crowd in, cut in, edge in,
     elbow in, encroach, entrench, escalade, foist in, foray,
     go too far, horn in, impinge, impose, impose on, impose upon,
     infest, infiltrate, infringe, inroad, insinuate, interfere,
     interlope, interpose, intervene, intrude, inundate, irrupt,
     know no bounds, make a raid, make an inroad, obtrude, overrun,
     overspread, overstep, overstep the bounds, overswarm, overwhelm,
     plague, play God, press in, pretend to, push in, put on, put upon,
     raid, ravage, rush in, scale, scale the walls, seize, slink in,
     slip in, smash in, sneak in, squeeze in, steal in, storm, storm in,
     swarm, swarm with, take by storm, take over, throng in, thrust in,
     transgress, trench, trespass, usurp, work in, worm in