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invasion
[ in-vey-zhuhn ]
noun
- an act or instance of invading or entering as an enemy, especially by an army.
- the entrance or advent of anything troublesome or harmful, as disease.
- entrance as if to take possession or overrun:
the annual invasion of the resort by tourists.
- infringement by intrusion.
invasion
/ ɪnˈveɪʒən /
noun
- the act of invading with armed forces
- any encroachment or intrusion
an invasion of rats
- the onset or advent of something harmful, esp of a disease
- pathol the spread of cancer from its point of origin into surrounding tissues
- the movement of plants to a new area or to an area to which they are not native
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Other Words From
- prein·vasion adjective
- rein·vasion noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
Figuring how to train Iraqi forces has dogged the United States since the 2003 invasion.
He branded it a fifth-column invasion into popular culture, normalizing radical, even communist ambitions.
One lefty tweeter even complained that an invasion of icky American tourists would undermine “family values” in Cuba.
Hikmatullah Shadman started working for American Special Forces teams in 2002 after the invasion that toppled the Taliban.
And Western capitals sought to play down the Russian invasion.
Spain is at war with North America, and now offers us this sugar-plum to draw us to her side to defend her against invasion.
Wright and his followers regard the opsonic index as an index of the power of the body to combat bacterial invasion.
So dies the invasion of England bogey which, from first to last, has wrought us an infinity of harm.
Some other stimulus to our Territorial recruiting than the fear of invasion will have to be invented in future.
At the English invasion of 1296, they would both be vigorous young men of twenty-two, or thereabouts.
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