invade
English
Etymology
From Latin invādō (“enter, invade”).
Pronunciation
Verb
invade (third-person singular simple present invades, present participle invading, simple past and past participle invaded)
- (transitive) To move into.
- Under some circumstances police are allowed to invade a person's privacy.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 37:
- Which becomes a body, and doth then invade / The state of life, out of the griesly shade.
- (transitive) To enter by force in order to conquer.
- Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982.
- 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- When a typical gaffe has him invading the Beagle and trying to rob Charles Darwin (David Tennant), he learns that his beloved “parrot” Polly is actually a dodo bird.
- (transitive) To infest or overrun.
- The picnic was invaded by ants.
- To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.
- The king invaded the rights of the people.
- To make an unwelcome or uninvited visit or appearance, usually with an intent to cause trouble or some other unpleasant situation.
Antonyms
- (move into): evade
Related terms
- See also: in-#Related terms
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Translations
to move into
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to enter by force in order to conquer
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to infest or overrun
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Italian
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invade
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) invāde
Portuguese
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invade
Spanish
Pronunciation
Verb
invade
- inflection of invadir:
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