| 单词 | invade |
| 释义 | invade (once / 135 pages) v When you Invade, you aggressively take over or occupy a place. If a country's leader wants to gain more land, the military might invade a neighboring country. Not everything that invades is militaristic. Some things that invade are cultural, such as the phenomena of young, stylish people moving into a neighborhood that had never been thought of as cool before. In an instant, new restaurants and shops catering to the newcomers open and soon the area is overrun with people wearing, say, skinny jeans and complicated eyewear. Natives to the area lament, "This place has been invaded by hipsters." WORD FAMILYinvade: invaded, invader, invades, invading, invasion, invasive+/invader: invaders/invading: invadingly/invasion: invasions/invasive: invasively, noninvasive/noninvasive: noninvasively USAGE EXAMPLES“Yes, and you were the invading army,” she insisted. New York Times(Jan 12, 2012) We trusted this agreement but learned painfully when Russia invaded Crimea that assurances are not guarantees. Wall Street Journal(Dec 29, 2016) A hippopotamus decided to invade the golf course during the final round of the Alfred Dunhill Championship in Malelane, South Africa. Seattle Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1v march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 Syn|Hypo|Hyper occupy infest, overrun invade in great numbers assail, attack launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with 2v occupy in large numbers or live on a host Syn|Hyper infest, overrun inhabit be present in 3v penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way The cancer had invaded her lungs Hyper interpenetrate, permeate penetrate mutually or be interlocked 4v intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate This new colleague invades my territory Syn|Hypo|Hyper encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon foray into, raid enter someone else's territory and take spoils maraudraid and rove in search of booty come in, enter, get in, get into, go in, go into, move into to come or go into |
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