单词 | reinvade |
释义 | reinvadev. transitive. To invade again or in turn. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come into [verb (transitive)] > again re-enter1442 reinvade1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Renvahir, to reinuade. 1647 I. B. Let. from Honourable Gentleman in Court 3 They were resolved to re-invade this Kingdome. 1694 W. Burnaby tr. Petronius Satyr (new ed.) 91 While the Gauls, ripe our Rome to re-invade, I force to skulk behind their Alps, afraid. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo iv, in Wks. (1721) III. 119 Thus I soon felt my flashy Goodness fade, And Sin with greater Force me re-invade. 1757 T. Smollett Compl. Hist. Eng. I. i. xi. 180 Then they reinvaded Mercia, wreaking their vengeance upon every thing belonging to the adherents of Edmund. 1829 E. W. Brayley Londiniana I. 52 Making extensive preparations to re-invade this country. 1895 F. W. Farrar Gathering Clouds I. Pref. 7 To show how the world reinvaded..the nominal Church. 1946 T. Barbour Naturalist's Scrapbk. vi. 108 The types of animals which have reinvaded the island are just those which would have been supposed to be the first to appear. 1998 A. Martin Bilton vi. 71 You unconditionally promised to protect the Ukraine, which Zubarov has just reinvaded. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1611 |
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