meaning of invade
1. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress.
2. 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.
3. To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people.
4. To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.
5. To make an invasion.
6. march aggressively into anothers territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1,
">1939"
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