invade

From Latin invādō (“enter, invade”).

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈveɪd/

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• Homophone: inveighed
• Rhymes: -eɪd

invade (third-person singular simple present invades, present participle invading, simple past and past participle invaded)

1. (transitive) To move into.

   Under some circumstances police are allowed to invade a person's privacy.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 37:

     Which becomes a body, and doth then invade / The state of life, out of the griesly shade.

2. (transitive) To enter by force in order to conquer.

   Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982.

   • 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     When a typical gaffe has him invading the Beagle and trying to rob Charles Darwin (David Tennant), he learns that his beloved “parrot” Polly is actually a dodo bird.

   • 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:

     And this year, some of the granite facades have a new addition - the blue and yellow of the flag of Ukraine. It's hardly surprising to see the Scots, a nation more attuned to independence than some, showing solidarity with a country brutally invaded by Russia.

3. (transitive) To infest or overrun.

   The picnic was invaded by ants.

4. To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.

   The king invaded the rights of the people.

5. To make an unwelcome or uninvited visit or appearance, usually with an intent to cause trouble or some other unpleasant situation.

• (move into): evade

• See also: in-#Related terms

• evanid

• IPA^(key): /inˈva.de/
• Rhymes: -ade
• Hyphenation: in‧và‧de

invade

1. third-person singular present indicative of invadere

invāde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of invādō

invade

1. inflection of invadir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• IPA^(key): /imˈbade/ [ĩmˈba.ð̞e]
• Rhymes: -ade
• Syllabification: in‧va‧de

invade

1. inflection of invadir:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative