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invade English

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What does invade mean?
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invade Verb

— If you invade a place, you to move in using soldiers and you plan to stay. — If you invade a place, you go there with a lot of people even though you are not welcome. — If an animal or plant invades a place, it moves in and causes trouble for native animals and plants.

invade

— verb march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 — verb (= intrude on) to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate This new colleague invades my territory The neighbors intrude on your privacy — verb penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way The cancer had invaded her lungs — verb (= infest) occupy in large numbers or live on a host the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North

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invade English » English

attack trespass raid intrude encroach overrun occupy infringe penetrate assault infest violate intrude on impinge encroach upon break into assail strike obtrude upon intrude into rush invasion intrude upon infiltrate hit enter crowd conquer charge capture burst in break in aggress whang wedge visit tresspass touch swoop sweep swarm suffuse storm stick up squeeze shoulder in seize rush at push provoke

Topics invade topics

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Social behavior Conflict Fight

Attack

Conjugation invade conjugation

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invade · verb

Examples invade examples

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Simple sentences

North Korea decided the time was right to invade.
The Germans planned to destroy the Royal Air Force and invade Britain.
Tom doesn't like it when people invade his personal space by standing too close to him.
If NATO forces invade Russia some day, it will be for preserving democracy and freedom, not for taking the oil of the Caucasus and Siberia.

Movie subtitles

They had the attitude that they should probably get on boats - and go and invade other countries.
Something more dramatic. When can we be ready to invade Osterlich?
You agree not to invade Osterlich, I agree not to invade Osterlich.
There are sections of New York that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.
Well, do you think they're going to invade us?
God is my witness that we did not want war. But the time has passed when insolent foreigners can invade Muscovite territory with impunity.
How dare you invade the sanctity of the captain's quarters?
Naturally. Since you invaded their privacy, they have every right to invade ours.
You have taken advantage of the weakness of a woman and her young son to invade the house of Ulysses and squander his wealth and his flocks.
What a way to invade the Earth.
Suppose we were to drop a fellow out of a plane over enemy territory. with papers on him saying we were going to invade Greece. and his parachute didn't open up.
Why should we do that unless we intend to invade Greece? That'd fool 'em.
We'll ask Goering not to invade for three months!
We did invade his land.
When can we be ready to invade Osterlich?
Napaloni's army might invade first.
We'll invade Osterlich first. After that we can bluff.
Napaloni's army shall not invade Osterlich.
Must you invade even my tomb?
She will fill your thoughts, invade your dreams!
To invade and penetrate Germany through the Lowlands.
May I invade the sanctum sanctorum?
Since you invaded their privacy, they have every right to invade ours.
We'll invade Osterlich first.
I agree not to invade Osterlich.
Well, there are sections of New York, major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.
You know, I'm not accusing you, Captain, but it's sort of absurd the way people invade this house, without even knocking.
They'll invade us and form a new civilization.
If the Russians decide to invade, they'll get to Mollaren.
That means that the Daleks can invade the universe and conquer it.
You're still going ahead with your plans to invade the caves?
We need to scientifically reproduce his physical characteristics in our own space soldiers when the time comes to invade Earth.

News and current affairs

As America debates whether or not to invade Iraq, fears that the country's economic recovery will stall are beginning to creep into the discussion; with that, worries about the health of the global economy are growing, too.
For example, George W. Bush used the crisis conditions after September 11, 2001, in the service of an assertion of executive power, as well as to invade Iraq.
Sure, the decision to invade Iraq was a big help in pushing the country's finances off a cliff, but that is far from the whole story.
The Israeli government may have seized on the outrageous murders as a pretext for provoking Hamas into a response that would allow Israel, in turn, to invade and destroy the tunnels Hamas has dug from Gaza into Israel.
Of course, resolving uncertainty is no reason to invade Iraq prematurely, for the costs of any war are high, and are not to be measured only, or primarily, in economic terms.
If the requirements of reciprocity and publicity are applied to the current plans to invade Iraq, the implications are clear.
Israel's reluctance to invade Gaza stems from a sober analysis of the meaning of such a move.
More important, was the decision to invade rightly made?
When Bush declared war on terror, he used that war to invade Iraq.
Learning the lessons of the decision to invade Iraq, democracies should not allow personal obsessions, fantasies, and dogmas to contaminate the foreign policy-making process.
Top military and diplomatic experts desperately warned Bush not to invade Iraq.
But companies like Airbnb, Amazon, Apple, and Uber exemplify a different kind of transformation: agile players invade other, seemingly unrelated industries and brilliantly exploit huge but previously unseen opportunities.
Many senior Americans were puzzled that Turkey, a long-standing NATO ally and a secular state, refused to allow American forces to use Turkey as a base to invade Iraq.
As a result, the question that dominates Israeli discourse nowadays is whether or not to invade Hamas-controlled Gaza.
As American and British troops prepare to invade Iraq, public opinion in these countries does not support war without UN authorization.
When Stalin signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact with Nazi Germany in 1939, it gave him an opportunity to invade Poland.
This will provide China with necessary capabilities to invade, should China's rulers wish, Japan's most remote islands, including the disputed Senkaku Islands, as well as Taiwan.
In February 1979, China's leader, Deng Xiaoping, ordered the People's Liberation Army to invade Vietnam.
Putin made the same claim when he sent troops to invade two ethnic enclaves in Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and recognized them as independent republics.
Europeans should understand the inherent dangers in creating a land corridor through another country, given the Nazis' use of the Danzig Corridor as a pretext to invade Poland in 1939.

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