invade
IPA: ɪnvˈeɪd
verb
- (transitive) To move into.
- (transitive) To enter by force in order to conquer.
- (transitive) To infest or overrun.
- To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.
- To make an unwelcome or uninvited visit or appearance, usually with an intent to cause trouble or some other unpleasant situation.
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Examples of "invade" in Sentences
- (You wouldn’t want to invade from the East anyway, because of the mountainous terrain.)
- Having a clear strategy in place _before_ you invade is just confusing and demoralizing.
- Robo calls invade our privacy and you simply cannot have a two-way discussion with a robot.
- No one moved for a few minutes; Janeway was making sure all the turbolifts made it to the bridge before she gave the word to invade.
- i rather take a risk on OBAMA THAN watching mccain invade iran and the rest of the middle east for oil and eventually china FOR RICE .......
- I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept.
- Granted, this was part of the initial plan of having the 4th Infantry Division invade from the north (nixed by the Turkish parliament), but the same result could have been achieved (albeit, more slowly) by coming from the South and bypassing Baghdad initially.
- To say that Bush was planning to invade is not unlike saying he had an invasion plan if we chose to invade (for those to definitively say one or the other would mean they were privvy to top secret meetings … unfortunately, these statements often come from those who surmise) … the difference could very much be spin or perspective, but that’s really neither here nor there.
- The most serious promise that the members gave each other was the promise that is necessary to have all lesser promises make sense in a world in which nations are the members, and that was the promise not to aggressively invade, that is not to invade without the consent of other nations on the Security Council including all of those members that hold a veto power as permanent Security Council members.
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