Crossword clues for invade
invade
- Occupy by force
- Enter forcibly
- Enter forcefully
- Become an occupying force
- Emulate Attila
- Try to take over by military force
- Try to conquer, as a country
- Try to conquer
- Storm into, militarily
- Storm into
- Push at the front?
- Intrude on
- Enter with hostile intent
- Enter with an army
- Enter aggressively
- Encroach upon
- Emulate the Mongols
- Attempt to conquer
- Blitz
- Encroach on
- Intrude upon, as one's space
- Trespass on
- Overrun
- Irrupt
- Maraud
- Attack, as across a boundary
- Trespass upon
- Enter intrusively
- Enter by force
- Enter (a country) illegally
- Overrun of report attacked in speech
- Attack a Democrat in comic vein
- Railed audibly as trespassers do
- Railed aloud, as trespassers do?
- Take over
- Enter forcibly, as a country
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Invade \In*vade"\, v. i.
To make an invasion.
--Brougham.
Invade \In*vade"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Invaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Invading.] [L. invadere, invasum; pref. in- in + vadere to go, akin to E. wade: cf. OF. invader, F. envahir. See Wade.]
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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.
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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.
--Milton. To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people.
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To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.
Syn: To attack; assail; encroach upon. See Attack.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Middle French invader "to invade," and directly from Latin invadere "to go into, enter upon; assail, assault, attack" (see invasion). Related: invaded; invading.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To move into. 2 (context transitive English) To enter by force in order to conquer.
WordNet
v. march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939" [syn: occupy]
to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new colleague invades my territory"; "The neighbors intrude on your privacy" [syn: intrude on, obtrude upon, encroach upon]
occupy in large numbers or live on a host; "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North" [syn: overrun, infest]
penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way; "The cancer had invaded her lungs"
Wikipedia
Invade is the second studio album by American metalcore band Within the Ruins.
Usage examples of "invade".
Wyvilo aborigines invaded the quarters of the galley slaves, freed King Antar, and took him away through one of the slop-doors.
If Priam were to ally himself with Axis and his ungodly hordes, then the Forbidden could invade Achar and all would be lost.
Parachute troops had invaded the Netherlands Indies, Thailand was occupied and Indochina was opened up by the acquiescent Vichy regime, bringing the Japanese forward to the eastern frontier of Burma.
Some bunch of ravaging Visigoths invaded Agora and took over when Dorraine was still a child.
I believe you when you say that Akasha, the first of the vampires, was created when an evil spirit invaded every fiber of her being, a spirit which had, before attacking her, acquired a taste for human blood.
Drew had become angry but she had to stop him before he invaded her tense body and caused the pain her grandmother and the amah had predicted.
United States invaded with a force that was far smaller than the one it amassed for the 1991 Persian Gulf War and without waiting to carry out a long, preparatory air campaign.
If Sardinia were chosen, he could probably be ready by October, but he did not expect to be able to invade the mainland of Italy before November, and by then the weather might be too bad for amphibious landings.
The Archdeacon, looking over his shoulder, saw the stranger who had invaded his garden that morning standing outside.
Five days later Napoleon and his Grande Armee invaded Russia, which, with John Quincy and his family in St.
On October 3, 1935, in defiance of the Covenant, his armies invaded the ancient mountain kingdom of Abyssinia.
Four men were with Case Barbel, all members of the crew that had raided the camp near the Aureole Mine and had later invaded the home of Frederick Zern.
Dogs, some following such as flyed, some invading such as stood still, some tearing those which lay prostrate, but generally there were none which escaped cleare: Behold upon this another danger ensued, the Inhabitants of the Towne stood in their garrets and windowes, throwing great stones upon our heads, that wee could not tell whether it were best for us to avoyd the gaping mouthes of the Dogges at hand or the perill of the stones afarre, amongst whome there was one that hurled a great flint upon a woman, which sate upon my backe, who cryed out pitiously, desiring her husband to helpe her.
Alps, invaded Italy, and besieged Aquileia with an innumerable host of Barbarians.
No: a cardinal of that name was the man responsible for the transportationthe theftof the Bibliotheca Palatina in 1623, after the Catholic armies invaded the Palatinate.