0 past simple and past participle of invade
1 to enter a country by force with large numbers of soldiers in order to take possession of it:
Concentrations of troops near the border look set to invade within the next few days.
Hundreds of squatters have invaded waste land in the hope that they will be allowed to stay.
Maria looks set to invade the music scene with her style and image.
Famous people often find their privacy is invaded by the press.
The Spanish Armada was sent by the king of Spain to invade England in 1588.
Supporters invaded the pitch.
The D-Day landings began on 6 June 1944, when Allied forces invaded Normandy.
They fought fearlessly against the troops who were invading from the north.
The country does not have the resources to invade its neighbour.
It has to some extent invaded and occupied your brain.
They vary from heather moorland to agrostis pastures invaded by gorse and bracken.
It is a common observation that simple, disturbed, human habitats are more readily invaded by insects and other invaders than complex, undisturbed, natural habitats.
