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, invade, 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, invade

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, invade, 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. Tony Shelton:

   Diamondback is a serious problem for farmers in New York State and around the world – anywhere cruciferous vegetables and field crops are grown, these moths invade and attack the crops, and they are developing resistance to insecticides, so we urgently need new tools to better control them.

2. Robert Baer:

   At any moment, we have to understand they could close Kabul's airport. All they would need to do is put a couple of mortars in the middle of it. C-17s would turn around and have to leave. That's their protocol, so, the Taliban are calling the shots. And there's nothing we can do. If they say we have to be out by the 31st, that's what we're going to have to do, unless we were to re-invade Afghanistan, which I don't see coming.

3. Ken Falk:

   We are extremely pleased that Indiana's attempt to violate women's basic rights has been thwarted, 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. Christopher Wray:

   And if China does invade Taiwan.

5. 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.