Synonyms for invade
ɪnˈveɪdin·vade

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1. invadeverb

   To attack is to begin hostilities of any kind. A general invades a country by marching in troops; he attacks a city by drawing up an army against it; he assaults it by hurling his troops directly upon its defenses. Assail and assault, tho of the same original etymology, have diverged in meaning, so that assault alone retains the meaning of direct personal violence. One may assail another with reproaches; he assaults him with a blow, a brandished weapon, etc. Armies or squadrons charge; combat and encounter may be said of individual contests. To beset is to set around, or, so to speak, to stud one's path, with menaces, attacks, or persuasions. To besiege and beleaguer are the acts of armies. To encounter is to meet face to face, and may be said either of the attacking or of the resisting force or person, or of both.

   Synonyms:
   assail, assault, attack, attack, beleaguer, beset, besiege, charge, combat, encounter, fall upon, set upon, storm

   Antonyms:
   aid, befriend, cover, defend, protect, resist, shelter, shield, support, sustain, uphold, withstand

   Preposition:
   We were attacked by the enemy with cannon and musketry.

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1. invade

   Synonyms:
   attack, assault, encroach, occupy, assail, violate, encroach upon, intrude upon, infringe upon, trench upon

   Antonyms:
   vacate, abandon, evacuate, relinquish

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1. invade, occupyverb

   march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation

   "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"

   Synonyms:
   lodge in, occupy, encroach upon, engross, obtrude upon, intrude on, busy, worry, absorb, engage, reside, concern, overrun, fill, infest, interest, take, use up

2. intrude on, invade, obtrude upon, encroach uponverb

   to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate

   "This new colleague invades my territory"; "The neighbors intrude on your privacy"

   Synonyms:
   overrun, encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon, infest, occupy

3. invade, overrun, infestverb

   occupy in large numbers or live on a host

   "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"

   Synonyms:
   well over, encroach upon, intrude on, overrun, run over, brim over, obtrude upon, occupy, overflow, infest

4. invadeverb

   penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way

   "The cancer had invaded her lungs"

   Synonyms:
   overrun, encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon, infest, occupy

Matched Categories

1. • Attack
   • Permeate

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1. invadeverb

   Synonyms:
   attack, assail, assault

2. invadeverb

   Synonyms:
   infringe, violate, encroach upon, trench upon

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1. invadeverb

   Synonyms:
   infringe, encroach, trespass, intrench, trench

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1. List of paraphrases for "invade":

   invades, invasion, devastate, encroach, aggression

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How to use invade in a sentence?

1. Chuck Schumer:

   The bottom line is simple. Vladimir Putin... has launched an unprovoked, immoral invasion of Ukraine, no one ... should fall... for Putin's lies that the Ukrainians wanted him to invade or that he was provoked to invade.

2. Butler:

   Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain; By this the fool commands the wise, The noble with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make the base submit.

3. Ken Falk:

   This law attempted to do exactly what Supreme Court precedent said could not be done : invade a woman's privacy rights by preventing her from deciding whether to obtain a pre-viability abortion.

4. Fox Cahn:

   We're being taken for a ride, we've seen so many cities waste millions of dollars in the past with cameras, systems that invade our privacy but actually fail to keep us safe.

5. Tammam Salam:

   We are still in talks for the helicopters to be delivered at the beginning of the program rather than at the end, so that we can use missiles as soon as possible against the jihadis in the mountains, daesh (Islamic State) is present in the region of Arsal, on the Lebanese-Syrian border. If it manages to invade Lebanon, it will impose its extremism everywhere.