Invasion

[ɪn'veɪʒ(ə)n] or [ɪn'veʒn]

Definition

(noun.) the act of invading; the act of an army that invades for conquest or plunder.

(noun.) (pathology) the spread of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells to new sites in the body; 'the tumor's invasion of surrounding structures'.

(noun.) any entry into an area not previously occupied; 'an invasion of tourists'; 'an invasion of locusts'.

Typist: Margery--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.

(n.) A warlike or hostile entrance into the possessions or domains of another; the incursion of an army for conquest or plunder.

(n.) The incoming or first attack of anything hurtful or pernicious; as, the invasion of a disease.

Typist: Sol

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Attack, assault, aggression, incursion, irruption, inroad, forray, raid.[2]. Encroachment, infringement, violation.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Irruption, encroachment,[See INCURSION]

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Definition

See Invade.

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Examples

All the troops in service could be brought to the front to contest every inch of ground threatened with invasion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
It was certainly the act of an insane man to attempt the invasion of the South, and the overthrow of slavery, with less than twenty men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Sir Leicester looks on at this invasion of the sacred precincts with an icy stare. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
By folk the good ladies of course mean themselves, for indeed they are kept in a continual fry by this system of mutual invasion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
He was to advance up the valley, covering the North from an invasion through that channel as well while advancing as by remaining near Harper's Ferry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
In a few armies since the Tartar's first invasion of the West were men executed summarily for as little reason as they were under his command. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
We then became the Army of Invasion. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
The invasion of the unknown is of the nature of an adventure; we cannot be sure in advance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
I put up some of my books; I should not want them all; I sat and thought; and waitedinvoluntarily deprecating the creeping invasion of twilight. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Just as in the west, so now in the east, an invasion became a social revolution. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
They built a wall between them and the world--Without, a thousand harpies raved, remorse and misery, expecting the destined moment for their invasion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
With each invasion first this and then that section of the Semitic peoples comes into history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
The book of Numbers takes up the wanderings of the Israelites in the desert and their invasion of Canaan. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
The author, by an extraordinary stratagem, prevents an invasion. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
The Ottoman Turks were a little band of fugitives who fled southwesterly before the first invasion of Western Turkestan by Jengis. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Kingship received an impetus from the Persian and Greek invasions of the Punjab. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
But each of such swarmings still leaves a tribal nucleus behind to supply fresh invasions in the future. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Whenever governments enter upon foreign invasions in order to avoid civil wars, the same trick is practiced. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
The barbarians in the case of Rome and in the case of China made similar invasions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
But only the second of these invasions was a permanent conquest and settlement. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Shelley