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Invasive

adjective

Relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision.

Marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue.

Involving invasion or aggressive attack. Synonyms: incursive, invading.

Gradually intrusive without right or permission. Synonyms: encroaching, trespassing. "Invasive tourists" , "Trespassing hunters"

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"Invasive" Quotes from Famous Books

... modern bedroom: a brief brightness, night and the odor of carrion, a crucified lion, a dying woman, the jeering of ribald mercenaries, the cackle of M. Homais. It is all one. If Flaubert deserved prosecution, it was not for making vice attractive, but for expressing with invasive energy that personal and desperately pessimistic conception of life by which ...

— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert

... occasion." He becomes pertinacious as he is offensive. He tramples upon more than one pair of feet in his struggle to reach the middle of the omnibus. The passengers patiently submit to the intrusion with that quiet good nature with which Americans usually suffer imposition invasive of good manners, or petty social rights. They seem to feel they can "stand it" if ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 • Various