invade

English

Etymology

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From Latin invādō (“enter, invade”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈveɪd/

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• Homophone: inveighed
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

1. (transitive) To move into.

   Under some circumstances police are allowed to invade a person's privacy.

   • (Can we date this quote by Edmund Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Which becomes a body, and doth then invade / The state of life, out of the grisly shade.

2. (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.

3. (transitive) To infest or overrun.

   The picnic was invaded by ants.

4. To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.

   The king invaded the rights of the people.

5. 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

Translations

to move into

• Bulgarian: нахлувам (bg) (nahluvam)
• Catalan: envair (ca)
• Danish: invadere, krænke
• Finnish: tunkeutua (fi)
• Galician: invadir
• German: eindringen (de), verletzen (de)
• Latin: invādō, introeō
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• Maori: maoho
• Portuguese: invadir (pt)
• Russian: вторга́ться (ru) impf (vtorgátʹsja), вто́ргнуться (ru) impf (vtórgnutʹsja)
• Spanish: invadir (es)
• Swedish: invadera (sv)
• Ukrainian: вдира́тися (uk) (vdyrátysja)

to enter by force in order to conquer

• Arabic: غَزَا (ḡazā)
• Bulgarian: завладявам (bg) (zavladjavam)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: envair (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 侵略 (zh) (qīnlüè), 侵入 (zh) (qīnrù), 侵犯 (zh) (qīnfàn), 侵占 (zh) (qīnzhàn)

• Danish: invadere
• Dutch: binnenvallen (nl)
• Esperanto: invadi
• Finnish: hyökätä (fi)
• French: envahir (fr)
• Galician: invadir
• German: überfallen (de), einmarschieren (de)
• Italian: invadere (it)
• Japanese: 侵略する (ja) (しんりゃくする, shinryaku-suru), 侵害する (ja) (しんがいする, shingai-suru), 襲う (ja) (おそう, osou)
• Khmer: លុក (km) (luk), រុករាន (km) (ruk riən)
• Korean: 침입하다 (chimip-hada)
• Ladino: envaír
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• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: incursō
• Maori: whakaekeeke
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: envahi (Jersey)
• Old English: swogan, geondswogan
• Polish: napadać (pl) impf, napaść (pl) pf, najeżdżać (pl) impf, najechać (pl) pf, zajmować (pl) impf, zająć (pl) pf
• Portuguese: invadir (pt)
• Russian: вторга́ться (ru) impf (vtorgátʹsja), вто́ргнуться (ru) impf (vtórgnutʹsja); оккупи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (okkupírovatʹ), напада́ть (ru) impf (napadátʹ), напа́сть (ru) pf (napástʹ)
• Spanish: invadir (es)
• Swedish: invadera (sv)
• Thai: บุกรุก (bùk-rúk)
• Tibetan: བཙན་འཛུལ་བྱས (btsan 'dzul byas)
• Turkish: istila etmek (tr)
• Ukrainian: вдира́тися (uk) (vdyrátysja), окупува́ти (okupuváty), захо́плювати (zaxópljuvaty)
• Vietnamese: xâm lược (vi), xâm chiếm (vi)

to infest or overrun

• Bulgarian: поразявам (bg) (porazjavam)
• Danish: invadere, oversvømme
• Finnish: hyökätä (fi)
• Galician: invadir, infestar
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• Hungarian: megrohan (hu)
• Maori: kōwaowao (of weeds), poki, popoki
• Portuguese: invadir (pt), infestar (pt)
• Spanish: invadir (es)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} envahir (fr)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} invadere (it)
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• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} ఆక్రమించు (te) (ākramiñcu)

Anagrams

• evanid

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Italian

Verb

invade

1. third-person singular present of invadere

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) invāde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of invādō

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Portuguese

Verb

invade

1. Template:pt-verb-form-of

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imˈbade/ [ĩmˈba.ð̞e]

Verb

invade

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of invadir.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of invadir.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of invadir.