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Invade   /ɪnvˈeɪd/   Listen
verb
Invade  v. t.  (past & past part. invaded; pres. part. invading)  
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."
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."
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.
Synonyms: To attack; assail; encroach upon. See Attack.



Invade  v. i.  To make an invasion.






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"Invade" Quotes from Famous Books



... busy search the tyrant gan to invade Each house, each hold, each temple and each tent To them the fault or faulty one bewrayed Or hid, he promised gifts or punishment, His idle charms the false enchanter said, But in this maze still wandered and miswent, For Heaven ...
— Jerusalem Delivered • Torquato Tasso

... progress of the war. By the end of 1778, however, the war entered on a new and, as it proved, decisive phase; it became a struggle for the southern provinces. In November Clinton sent a small force by sea under Colonel Campbell to invade Georgia. Campbell routed the Americans and took Savannah; and General Prevost, who joined him from Florida, easily obtained possession of the province. Lincoln's attempt to regain it was defeated at Briar creek on March 3, 1779, and Prevost penetrated into South Carolina. He finally retired to Georgia, ...
— The Political History of England - Vol. X. • William Hunt

... loves the equality that confuses and will not distinguish between those who should rule and those who should obey. Is it any wonder that the spirit of licence, insubordination, and anarchy should invade everything, even the institution of the family? Fathers learn to treat their children as equals and are half afraid of them, while children neither fear nor respect their parents. All the citizens and residents and even strangers aspire ...
— The Cult of Incompetence • Emile Faguet

... universe may not have developed tendencies or involved consequences which eluded his forethought, and are now beyond even his control; —whether, for this reason, or for some other necessity, such infinite sorrows have been permitted to invade it;—whether, above all, He be propitious or offended with a world in which I feel too surely, in the profound and various misery of man, that his aspects are not all benignant;—how, if he be offended, he is to be reconciled;—whether he is at all accessible, or one to whom the pleasures and ...
— The Eclipse of Faith - Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic • Henry Rogers

... built, as that these powers and arts should have force to disturb reason and not to establish and advance it. For the end of logic is to teach a form of logic to secure reason, not to entrap it. The end of morality is to procure the affections to obey reason, and not to invade it. The end of rhetoric is to fill the imagination to second reason, and not to oppress it. For these abuses of arts come in ...
— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon


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