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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
invade
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an invading army
▪ The towns were looted by the invading army.
invade sb's privacy (=try to find out personal things about them, or disturb them when they want to be alone)
▪ She complained that the magazine had invaded her privacy by printing the photos.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
army
▪ That night an army of street-cleaning machines invades Ninth Avenue from the north, mowing down anything in their paths.
body
▪ Ari star-fish stretches out her limbs and feels the water begin to invade her body.
▪ The disease appeared to have invaded her entire body.
▪ Then her immune system, crushed by Aids, fell to a wild angry thrush that invaded her body.
country
▪ The planners say Milton Keynes has brought country living into the town ... Peter says the town has invaded the country.
▪ He and Poivre proposed to muster a contingent of three thousand troops, seize Tourane and drive inland to invade the country.
▪ Can a country legally invade another country that has not used military force against it?
home
▪ He knew why so many people had invaded his home so early in the morning.
▪ Read in studio Police are hunting a gang of armed robbers who've invaded three homes of people in their eighties.
▪ As Gwen, an endearing liar and fantasist, Goldie literally invades Martin's home - and ends up stealing his heart.
island
▪ They backed off that time, but a few days later they tried to invade the island.
▪ But there were even deeper shadows, strange and grave silences surrounding plans to invade the island.
pitch
▪ Demonstrators invaded the pitch, but they were repelled and play continued.
privacy
▪ Some sparrows invaded that privacy, crossing from parapet rail to chair to flower tub.
▪ It can be autocratic and invade our privacy in ways that earlier generations could not have envisioned.
▪ Go into too much detail and you're invading the privacy of your ex.
▪ Safeguards for information sources Seeing their own information does not entitle a client to invade some one else's privacy.
▪ Then, take care that the photography does not invade the privacy of the neighbourhood.
territory
▪ In short, the comic poet is invading the territory of the tragic muse.
▪ The tide turned when Tamerlane invaded their territory and in 1398 successfully raided Delhi, and sacked it without mercy.
▪ She has, in some way, invaded my territory.
▪ A stoat had invaded the territory.
▪ A corollary is that these fans derive pleasurable excitement from going on away trips and invading the territories of opposing fans.
world
▪ Then evil had invaded his safe world.
▪ He feels invaded by the world.
■ VERB
try
▪ They backed off that time, but a few days later they tried to invade the island.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A virus has invaded most of their computers.
▪ Enemy forces were almost certainly preparing to invade.
▪ Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.
▪ In his latest film, super-intelligent aliens invade Earth and try to take over.
▪ Sicily was invaded by the Normans, and later by the Saracens.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Invade

Invade \In*vade"\, v. i. To make an invasion.
--Brougham.

Invade

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.]

  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.
    --Spenser.

  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.
    --Milton.

  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.

    Syn: To attack; assail; encroach upon. See Attack.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
invade

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
invade

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To move into. 2 (context transitive English) To enter by force in order to conquer.

WordNet
invade
  1. 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]

  2. 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]

  3. 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]

  4. penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way; "The cancer had invaded her lungs"

Wikipedia
Invade (Within the Ruins album)

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.