Invade

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  • intransitive verb. To enter by force in order to conquer or pillage.
  • intransitive verb. To enter as if by invading; overrun or crowd:
  • intransitive verb. To enter and proliferate in bodily tissue, as a pathogen.
  • intransitive verb. To encroach or intrude on; violate.
  • intransitive verb. To make an invasion.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • . To go into or upon; enter.
  • To enter or penetrate into as an enemy; go or pass into or over with hostile intent, as in a military incursion.
  • Hence To come into or upon as if by a hostile incursion; make an attack upon.
  • To intrude upon; infringe; encroach on; violate: as, to invade the privacy of a family.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress.
  • transitive verb. To enter with hostile intentions; to enter with a view to conquest or plunder; to make an irruption into; to attack.
  • transitive verb. To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.
  • transitive verb. To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively.
  • intransitive verb. To make an invasion.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To move into.
  • verb. To enter by force in order to conquer.
  • verb. To infest or overrun.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way
  • verb. to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate
  • verb. march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation
  • verb. occupy in large numbers or live on a host
  • Word Usage
    "Having a clear strategy in place _before_ you invade is just confusing and demoralizing."
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