invade

invade is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people.
4. transitive verb. To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.
5. intransitive verb. To make an invasion.
6. verb. march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation

   "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"

   Synonyms: occupy

7. verb. penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way

   "The cancer had invaded her lungs"

8. verb. to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate

   "This new colleague invades my territory"

   "The neighbors intrude on your privacy"

9. verb. occupy in large numbers or live on a host

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

   Synonyms: infest, overrun

Synonyms

occupy, infest, overrun

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in invade:

evanid, viande

Common word forms

invaded, invader, invades, invading

Words from these letters

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