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invader
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE alien ▪ Beam to another dimension, alien invaders . foreign ▪ The city was the centre of -he battles fought against the Sinhalese by foreign invaders in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Invader \In*vad"er\, n. One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, agent noun from invade .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who enters by force in order to conquer [syn: encroacher ]
Usage examples of invader.
Garm Bel Iblis had turned on the invaders like a cornered wampa, and Fleet Group Two was accelerating through the refugee screen to meet the enemy head-on.
Buildings were burning and most of the civilian population was running in aimless panic, looking for a place to escape the phaser beams and swinging blades of the savage invaders.
The ancipital race, to which we can ascribe many of our human difficulties over the ages, is not a race of new invaders, like the Driats.
Boats containing the heavy ammunition and a regiment of conscripts were battered upon the rocks, and hundreds of the invaders found an unquiet grave upon the Banc des Violets.
Amos, Guy, and Arutha observed the invaders from their command post upon the southern barbican, the main entrance to the city.
Guy, and Arutha observed the invaders from their command post upon the southern barbican, the main entrance to the city.
Thus the island, with a clear run eastward all the way to Beachy Head and Dover, gave the best chance of bearing down on invaders wherever they landed.
He glared down at the scene in the courtyard, where, in front of the soldiers, slaves still worked, redding out the biogas drains, glancing mistrustingly at the invaders.
The captain had already got one foot in the wherry, and the watermen, equally alarmed with himself, were trying to push off, when the invaders came up, and, springing into the boat, took possession of the oars, sending Bludder floundering into the Thames, where he sunk up to the shoulders, and stuck fast in the mud, roaring piteously for help.
Their valley was just north of Bryn Shander, as close to the principle city as any of the fishing villages, and the humans, often warring with each other and fighting off invaders, were happy to trade for the marvelous armor and weapons that the dwarves forged.
The First ordered every able-bodied Cabalist to harry the invaders until they were a mile outside the city walls, and the righteous crusat raid on Cabal City ended in disaster.
This hostile invader has captured the holy city of Darre which rightfully belongs to those of us who profess the true faith.
For some minutes the invaders busied themselves slashing, defacing and defiling queenly visages.
It saves the invader the large amounts of extra energy needed to desalt sea water in his transmutation or converting process.
An alarm was spread that men would be brought together from all nations, revolutionists and anarchists, especially from France, Italy, and Germany, and that possibly, with the assistance of these invaders landing upon our shores in the disguise of promoters of peace and industry, a revolution of the disaffected among ourselves would be attempted.