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Verb invades, invading, invaded
invade - march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"
		occupy
		assail, attack attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly"
		infest, overrun invade in great numbers; "the roaches infested our kitchen"
invade - occupy in large numbers or live on a host; "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"
		overrun, infest
		inhabit be present in; "sweet memories inhabit this house"
invade - penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way; "The cancer had invaded her lungs"
		interpenetrate, permeate penetrate mutually or be interlocked; "The territories of two married people interpenetrate a lot"
invade - to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new colleague invades my territory"; "The neighbors intrude on your privacy"
		intrude on, obtrude upon, encroach upon
		go in, move into, go into, get in, come in, get into, enter be used or required for; "A lot of energy went into the organization of this banquet"
		foray into, raid enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly"

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invade (v. t.)
To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress.
invade (v. t.)
To enter with hostile intentions; to enter with a view to conquest or plunder; to make an irruption into; to attack; as, the Romans invaded Great Britain.
invade (v. t.)
To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people.
invade (v. t.)
To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.
invade (v. i.)
To make an invasion.

invade
in-vād′, v.t. to enter a country as an enemy: to attack: to encroach upon: to violate: to seize or fall upon.—ns. Invad′er; Invā′sion, the act of invading: an attack: an incursion: an attack on the rights of another: an encroachment: a violation.—adj. Invā′sive, making invasion: aggressive: infringing another's rights. [Fr.,—L. invadĕre, invasum—in, in, vadĕre, to go.]