0 present 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.
Insects display a wide range of defence mechanisms, the primary form of which is the rapid phagocytosis or immobilization by nodule formation, of invading organisms.
Decreased recovery of invading parasites from the lungs as a parameter of acquired immunity to schistosomiasis in the mouse.
Revivalists' speech tore down the hedges around literate men's households, publicizing marital conflict to invading ears.
