Definition of Invade

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Invade

To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress.

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.

To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people.

To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.

To make an invasion.

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Invade Quotations

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
Ann Coulter

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Milton Friedman

But here too it should be noted that the President's approach was to first ask the repressive and brutal Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden to us, and only after that government refused to do that did we invade.
Barney Frank

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.
Elayne Boosler

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
Abu Bakar Bashir

My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.
James Broughton

You don't need to invade a place or install a new government to help bring about a positive change.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Some people can sometimes really invade your space and kind of never leave you alone.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Don't invade Iraq. Inspections work, war won't.
Martin Sheen

Invade Translations

invade in Dutch is binnenvallen, binnenrukken
invade in French is envahir, invadons, invader, invadent, invadez
invade in German is eindringen
invade in Italian is ricordare
invade in Norwegian is invadere
invade in Portuguese is invada
invade in Spanish is invadir
invade in Swedish is infalla i

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