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单词 invasion
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invasionn.

/ɪnˈveɪʒən/
Etymology: < French invasion (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter, frequent from 14th cent.), < late Latin invāsiōn-em , noun of action < invādĕre to invade v.
1.
a. The action of invading a country or territory as an enemy; an entrance or incursion with armed force; a hostile inroad.
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society > armed hostility > attack > invasion > [noun]
here-gang10..
inrunning1382
incursion?a1475
invasion1539
incurse1543
irruption1577
invade1591
invading1603
invadationa1607
infall1645
inroadinga1656
incursation1659
infallinga1698
big one1960
1539 C. Tunstall Serm. Palme Sondaye (1823) 74 If they shal persyst in their pestilent malice to make inuasyon into this realme [etc.].
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. clxxiiijv No prince could hurte hym by warre or inuasion.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 Sam. xxx. 14 Wee made an inuasion vpon the South of the Cherethites. View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iii. 364 The Parthian..Found able by invasion to annoy Thy country. View more context for this quotation
1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 145 The Spaniards..made a powerful invasion upon the infant colony of Georgia.
1851 D. Wilson Archæol. & Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. iii. ii. 368 A foe ever watching the opportunity for invasion and spoil.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 77 In the Danish invasions, the marauders seized upon horses where they landed.
b. figurative. A harmful incursion of any kind, e.g. of the sea, of disease, moral evil, etc.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > harmful or hostile
again-runningc1384
incursion?a1475
invasion?1566
invade1591
out-coursea1603
inroad1637
?1566 J. Alday tr. P. Boaistuau Theatrum Mundi sig. Q vij b Savegarde, and defende him, aswell from the invasions of wicked spirites as of other snares of the fleshe and the worlde.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 41 The Earth..being freed from the tyrannicall invasion and usurpation of the Waters.
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. ii. xiv. sig. Q6v The fore-runners..of the Cold fit of an Ague, the first Invasion of that Disease having been preceded by the like Distempers.
1733 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Effects Air Human Bodies 135 What..demonstrates the Plague to be endemial to Egypt, is its regular Invasion and going off at certain Seasons.
1847 H. Rogers Ess. I. v. 257 It by no means appears that a momentary invasion of doubt, or even of scepticism, is inconsistent with a prevailing and habitual faith.
attributive.1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 396 The usual symptoms of the invasion stage.
c. Pathology. The spreading of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells that are already in the body to new sites.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [noun] > invasiveness > invasion
invasion1891
1891 F. P. Foster Illustr. Encycl. Med. Dict. III. 2011/2 Invasion,..the process by which a particular organ or part becomes affected with disease or parasites existing elsewhere in the organism.
1892 G. M. Sternberg Man. Bacteriol. iii. i. 221 The invasion of the blood which occurs in anthrax and in various forms of septicæmia in the lower animals, induced by subcutaneous inoculation with pure cultures of certain pathogenic bacteria, does not generally immediately follow the inoculation.
1924 R. Muir Text-bk. Pathol. xii. 332 Incision of the capsule may permit of renewed invasion by the tumor.
1949 H. T. Karsner Human Pathol. (ed. 7) 312/2 Although certain normal cells may infiltrate into neighboring structures,..yet infiltration and invasion are properties of neoplastic cells.
1965 T. F. Nealon Managem. Patient with Cancer i. 13/2 Extension or invasion is the spread of a cancer by direct involvement of surrounding structures, lymphatics, or blood vessels.
2. Infringement by intrusion; encroachment upon the property, rights, privacy, etc. of any one. Esp. in invasion of privacy.
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society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] > infringement of rights, etc.
intrusion1433
intruseryc1470
attainmentc1503
encroachment1523
encroaching1539
trenching1543
infringinga1575
usurpationa1626
entrenching1629
entrenchment1635
invasion1650
impingement1671
infringement1673
trespass1769
usurpature1845
society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] > infringement of rights, etc. > specific
invasion of privacy1890
1650 in W. S. Perry Hist. Coll. Amer. Colonial Church: Virginia (1870) I. 1 Suffer no Invasion in matters of Religion.
1736 D. Neal Hist. Puritans III. 514 His government for almost fifteen years was one continued..invasion upon the civil liberties of his subjects.
1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. viii. 102 A voluntary invasion of the rights of his kinsman and ally.
1844 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. iv. 48 There were..many invasions of the constitution.
1890 Harvard Law Rev. 4 198 The common law recognizes and upholds a principle applicable to cases of invasion of privacy.
1912 R. Kipling in London Mag. Mar. 4/1 Any complaint of invasion of privacy needs immediate investigation.
1967 H. McCloy Further Side of Fear i. 3 He would have no motive for coming by stealth... Besides, it was impossible to associate Mr. Erskine with any invasion of privacy.
3. Assault, attack (upon a person, etc.). Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > attack > [noun]
fiend-reseOE
frumresec1275
assault1297
sault1297
inracea1300
sailing13..
venuea1330
checkc1330
braid1340
affrayc1380
outrunningc1384
resinga1387
wara1387
riota1393
assailc1400
assayc1400
onset1423
rake?a1425
pursuitc1425
assemblinga1450
brunta1450
oncominga1450
assembly1487
envaya1500
oncomea1500
shovea1500
front1523
scry1523
attemptate1524
assaulting1548
push1565
brash1573
attempt1584
affront?1587
pulse1587
affret1590
saliaunce1590
invasion1591
assailment1592
insultation1596
aggressa1611
onslaught1613
source1616
confronta1626
impulsion1631
tentative1632
essaya1641
infall1645
attack1655
stroke1698
insult1710
coup de main1759
onfall1837
hurrah1841
beat-up of quarters1870
offensive1887
strafe1915
grand slam1916
hop-over1918
run1941
strike1942
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun]
assault1297
venuea1330
scoura1400
wassailc1400
frayc1430
brunta1450
sault1510
onseta1522
attemptate1524
onsetting1541
breach1578
dint1579
objectiona1586
invasion1591
extent1594
grassation1610
attack1655
run1751
wrack1863
mayhem1870
serve1967
1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 1090 The Tygre, and the Bore..raged sore In bitter words, seeking to take occasion Upon his fleshly corpse to make invasion.
1698 R. South 12 Serm. III. 186 An House built out of the Road is exposed to the Invasion of Robbers.
1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad i. 11 Prepares, by swift invasion, to remove Your virgin bride.
4. Ecology. The spread of a plant or animal population into an area formerly free of the species concerned.
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the world > life > biology > balance of nature > distribution > [noun] > introduction or spread to new areas
peregrination1670
naturalization1830
colonization1863
cosmopolitanization1889
invasion1905
1905 F. E. Clements Res. Methods Ecol. iv. 210 By invasion is understood the movement of plants from an area of a certain character into one of a different character, and their colonization in the latter.
1932 G. D. Fuller & H. S. Conard tr. J. Braun-Blanquet Plant Sociol. xiii. 308 The colonization of new unoccupied land by plant disseminules may be either by centrifugal or by marginal invasion.
1940 H. F. Witherby et al. Handbk. Brit. Birds I. 31 The slender-billed nutcracker... Not confined to conifer woods in its ‘invasions’ of Europe.
1958 C. Elton Ecol. of Invasions vi. 111 We have to accept the proposition that invasions of animals and plants and their parasites—and our parasites—will continue.
1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 354/1 The process which occurs when one kind of population begins to occupy a territory (or an occupational niche) already occupied by another, or it increases its rate of occupancy... In human ecology invasion is restricted to this..meaning.
5. attributive.
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1915 M. B. Lowndes Let. 10 Mar. (1971) 57 No, I do not believe in either Zeppelins or an invasion... There is an invasion scare but I don't believe in that.
1923 W. S. Churchill World Crisis (1938) I. xix. 404 An invasion scare took a firm hold of the military and naval authorities.
1941 Times (Weekly ed.) 15 Oct. One of the heaviest attacks of the war was made on the invasion coast.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 8 The men..who would fly tomorrow's dawn patrol along the invasion coast.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 18 A tradition which was..renewed in France in 1939..; over the ‘invasion ports’ of Northern France in 1940 and 1941.

Derivatives

inˈvasionist n. one who advocates or believes in an invasion; also attributive.
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society > armed hostility > war > war as profession or skill > [noun] > policies and theories > person(s)
Wellingtonian1815
invasionist1853
compulsionist1886
occupationist1892
Zeppelinite1909
navalist1911
westerner1916
retreatista1925
nuclearist1952
Lawrentian1957
1853 Cobden 1793 & 1853, Pol. Writ. (1878) 196 The other argument of the invasionists..will be successful.
1853 Cobden 1793 & 1853, Pol. Writ. (1878) 210 These invasionist writings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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