Definition of Invasion

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Invasion

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

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

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

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Invasion 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

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo

One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
Victor Hugo

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
Jimmy Carter

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Thomas Sowell

For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
Robert Capa

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
Samuel Alexander

Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
Abu Bakar Bashir

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.
Antonio Tabucchi

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
Antonio Tabucchi

Invasion Translations

invasion in Dutch is inval, invasie
invasion in French is invasion
invasion in German is Einfall
invasion in Italian is invasione
invasion in Latin is incursio
invasion in Norwegian is invasjon, krenkelse

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