in·vade

(ĭn-vād′)

v. in·vad·ed, in·vad·ing, in·vades

v.tr.

1. To enter by force in order to conquer or pillage: The Romans invaded Britain.

2. To enter as if by invading; overrun or crowd: Each weekend, skiers invade the mountain town.

3. To enter and proliferate in bodily tissue, as a pathogen: Bacteria have invaded the lungs.

4. To encroach or intrude on; violate: invade someone's privacy.

v.intr.

To make an invasion: The cancer had invaded deeply into his liver.

[Middle English, from Old French invader, from Latin invādere : in-, in; see in-² + vādere, to go.]

in·vad′er n.

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Noun

invader - someone who enters by force in order to conquer

encroacher

interloper, intruder, trespasser - someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission

invader

noun attacker, raider, plunderer, aggressor, looter, trespasser The invaders were finally crushed in June 1719.

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Translations

غازٍ

útočník

angriber

innrásaraîili

napadalec

istilâcı

侵略者

invader

[ɪnˈveɪdəʳ] N → invasor(a) m/f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

invader

[ɪnˈveɪdə^r] n → envahisseur/euse m/f
Heavy fire greeted the invaders → Un feu nourri accueillit les envahisseurs.

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invader

n (Mil) → Invasor m; (fig) → Eindringling m (→ of in +acc); (of privacy) → Eindringling (→ of in +acc), → Störer m (→ of +gen)

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invader

[ɪnˈveɪdəʳ] n → invasore m

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

invade

(inˈveid) verb

(of an enemy) to enter (a country etc) with an army. Britain was twice invaded by the Romans.

inˈvader noun

a person, or (sometimes in singular with the) an armed force etc, that invades. Our armies fought bravely against the invader(s).

inˈvasion (-ʒən) noun

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My home, thank God, is as yet outside their lines; my wife and little ones are still beyond the invader's farthest advance."

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Reasoning thus, I discovered that it was improbable that a state of war still existed, and that the people all had been drawn from this portion of England to some other, where they might better defend themselves against an invader.

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As a ruler, the East Wind has a remarkable stability; as an invader of the high latitudes lying under the tumultuous sway of his great brother, the Wind of the West, he is extremely difficult to dislodge, by the reason of his cold craftiness and profound duplicity.

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But should domestic tyranny oppress us, or the invader's step pollute our soil, still may the Gray Champion come, for he is the type of New England's hereditary spirit; and his shadowy march, on the eve of danger, must ever be the pledge, that New England's sons will vindicate their ancestry.

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but supposing the invader of domestic bliss to betake himself away at the first rush of the harem's lord, then is it very diverting to watch that lord.

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If you are anxious to fight, you should not go to meet the invader near a river which he has to cross.

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In turn, at night on deck, wriggling her toes at him under a rug to simulate some strange and crawling creature of an invader, he would dare to simulate his own befoolment and quite disrupt Villa's bed with his frantic ferocious attack on the thing that he knew was only her toes.

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Similar impediments occur at every step, to exhaust the strength and delay the progress of an invader. Formerly, an invading army would penetrate into the heart of a neighboring country almost as soon as intelligence of its approach could be received; but now a comparatively small force of disciplined troops, acting on the defensive, with the aid of posts, is able to impede, and finally to frustrate, the enterprises of one much more considerable.

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On, on, on the vast ranks of invaders marched, filling the tunnel from side to side.

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Ismene tells him of the latest oracle and interprets to him its purport, that some day the Theban invaders of Athens will be routed in a battle near the grave of Oedipus.

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On some flimsy pretext or other Mowanna, the king of Nukuheva, whom the invaders by extravagant presents cajoled over to their interests, and move about like a mere puppet, has been set up as the rightful sovereign of the entire island--the alleged ruler by prescription of various clans, who for ages perhaps have treated with each other as separate nations.

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In the fourth place are propagatores or propugnatores imperii; such as in honorable wars enlarge their territories, or make noble defence against invaders. And in the last place are patres patriae; which reign justly, and make the times good wherein they live.

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