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Adjective invading has 1 sense
- incursive, invading, invasive - involving invasion or aggressive attack; "invasive war"
Antonym: defensive (indirect, via offensive)
Verb invade has 4 senses
- 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
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- 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
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- 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
Sample sentences:
Something is ----ing PP
Something ----s something
- invade - penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way; "The cancer had invaded her lungs"
--4 is one way to interpenetrate, permeate
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Something ----s something
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