invade

invade has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• v. t.. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress.
• v. t.. 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.
• v. t.. To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people.
• v. t.. To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.
• v. i.. To make an invasion.
• v.. march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"
• v.. penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way; "The cancer had invaded her lungs"
• v.. to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new colleague invades my territory"; "The neighbors intrude on your privacy"
• v.. occupy in large numbers or live on a host; "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"