[
UK
/ɪnvˈeɪd/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈveɪd/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈveɪd/ ]
VERB
-
march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation
Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 -
to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate
The neighbors intrude on your privacy
This new colleague invades my territory -
penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way
The cancer had invaded her lungs -
occupy in large numbers or live on a host
the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North
How To Use invade In A Sentence
- Invade some butternut or hickory grove on a frosty October morning, and hear the red squirrel beat the "juba" on a horizontal branch. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers
- And at the same time the huge body tried to take the invader and enwomb it. The Gunslinger
- I don't want to invade your private life.
- ‘On the 18th, we were ‘invaded’ by a flock of over 100 mixed redwings, grackles, starlings, and cowbirds that ate everything in sight and emptied the bird bath in minutes!’
- What the UN and the West are doing is the colonial thing of merely resorting to bully-boy tactics, Neither would attempt to pass judgement let alone threaten to intervene using military force, in any election held in the Russian Federation or attempt to invade China because it does not have democractic government. Ivory Coast's descent into madness
- He walked his audience through a litany of invaders: Mongol khans, Turkish beys, Swedish feudal lords, Polish and Lithuanian gentry, British and French capitalists, Japanese barons.
- Those who held bookland were territorial lords with local interests, and were thus far more likely to seek terms with the Danish invaders, if they could save all or part of their inheritance.
- The invaders despoiled the country of all its treasures.
- Two: even our sleepy suburban cove had been invaded by traffic.
- A moment later, another of the invaders lashed him with a peculiar weapon that looked something like a cat-o'-nine-tails.