invade

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/ɪnˈveɪd/

verb

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01
verb
To enter a place by force, especially as an army.
02
verb
To fill or spread through a place in an unwanted way.

Examples

Hull was given immediate orders to invade Canada.
You must not invade the privacy of others.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

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verb

Extra meanings

To enter by force, usually in order to conquer.
To infest or overrun.
To move into.

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In context

Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982.
Under some circumstances police are allowed to invade a person's privacy.
The picnic was invaded by ants.

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The army plans to blank the neighboring country under cover of darkness.

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Which becomes a body, and doth then invade / The state of life, out of the griesly shade.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 37
There are only two ways to remedy the mute-swan situation: Pay people to locate nests and addle their eggs (addling means shaking each egg hard to kill the embryo inside; if you smash the eggs, the birds will lay replacements, but swans will sit on addled eggs and not lay more), or authorized licensed hunters to shoot the birds. Addling is not only time consuming and expensive, but it's also dangerous because swans regard people who invade their nesting territory as just a larger kind of raccoon.
2002 July, George Reiger, “More Bad News on Big Birds”, in Field & Stream, volume CVII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Times Mirror Magazines, →ISSN, page 56
After shaking off a pre-dawn counterattack on Tinian Monday, the American forces that invaded that island Sunday broadened and deepened their hold. Heavy casualties were inflicted on the Japanese in breaking up the attack and five enemy tanks destroyed.
1944 July 26 [1944 July 25], “Yank Forces Join on Shore Of Apra Harbor”, in The Washington Post, number 24,877, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 7
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.
2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits”, in The Onion AV Club
[…] Polycrates' encomium on mice dwelt upon their service to the Egyptians in gnawing the bowstrings and shield handles of invading enemies, while Philostratus, praising hair, gave examples of long-haired heroes at Troy. Appion's praise of adultery recalls the love affairs of Zeus and other gods, and Libanus stresses the good parentage of Thersites, ugliest of the Greeks who fought against Troy. But for all their diversity of individual arguments, the overall pattern for these playful or "adoxographic" works remains that of the serious encomium, and their subject matter can conveniently be grouped under the three broad headings of vice, disease, and animals.
2014, Annette H. Tomarken, The Smile of Truth: The French Satirical Eulogy and Its Antecedents, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 6–7

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Origin

verb

From Latin invādō (“enter, invade”).

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The army plans to blank— the neighboring country under cover of darkness.

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verb

The army plans to blank the neighboring country under cover of darkness.