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Invade   /ɪnvˈeɪd/   Listen
verb
Invade  v. t.  (past & past part. invaded; pres. part. invading)  
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.
Synonyms: To attack; assail; encroach upon. See Attack.



Invade  v. i.  To make an invasion.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... belly trembled, My lips quivered at the voice; Rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in my place: That I should rest waiting for the day of trouble, When he that shall invade them in troops cometh up against the people. For though the fig tree shall not blossom, Neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive shall fail, And the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, And there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet ...
— Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature • Various

... Let it be granted that no sensible miracle could authorize me so to violate my moral perceptions as to slay (that is, to murder) my innocent wife. May it, nevertheless, authorize me to invade a neighbour country, slaughter the people and possess their cities, although, without such a miracle, the deed would be deeply criminal? It is impossible to say that here, more than in the former case, miracles[5] can turn aside the common laws of ...
— Phases of Faith - Passages from the History of My Creed • Francis William Newman

... estates which his father left, confiscated all the property, under the pretext that Henry had forfeited it, and so converted it to his own use. This last outrage aroused Henry to such a pitch of indignation that he resolved to invade England, depose Richard, and claim the crown ...
— Margaret of Anjou - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... substance in the colon; that this absorption is made possible by an obstructed or sluggish intestinal canal where disease germs are propagated and lodged; that these germs, along with a certain amount of excrement, invade the tissues by absorption; and that we thus have the system constantly saturated with poisonous germs and filth, re-excreted, re-absorbed and re-secreted—no one knows how many times—by the ...
— Intestinal Ills • Alcinous Burton Jamison

... that is not familiar to those who know its weakness and its strength, who have had experience of Swift and Bolingbroke and Junius. Maury once said, "We have a free press: we have everything." In 1812, when Napoleon watched the grand army crossing the Niemen to invade Russia, and whistled the tune of Malbrook, he interrupted his tune to exclaim, "And yet all that is not equal to the songs of Paris!" Chateaubriand afterwards said that, with the liberty of the press, there was no abuse he would ...
— Lectures on the French Revolution • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton


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