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invades

 
Verb invade has 4 senses
  1. invade, occupy - march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation; "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"
    --1 is one way to attack, assail
    Derived forms: noun invasion1, noun invader1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. intrude on, invade, obtrude upon, encroach upon - to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate; "This new colleague invades my territory"; "The neighbors intrude on your privacy"
    --2 is one way to enter, come in, get into, get in, go into, go in, move into
    Derived forms: noun invasion2, noun invader1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. invade, overrun, infest - occupy in large numbers or live on a host; "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"
    --3 is one way to inhabit, occupy
    Derived form: noun invasion2
    Sample sentences:
    Something is ----ing PP
    Something ----s something
  4. invade - penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way; "The cancer had invaded her lungs"
    --4 is one way to
    interpenetrate, permeate
    Derived form: noun invasion3
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
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