OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 19186

invade

/ɪnˈveɪd/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
invadir
To move into.
Under some circumstances police are allowed to invade a person's privacy.
Which becomes a body, and doth then invade / The state of life, out of the griesly shade.
invadir
To enter by force, usually in order to conquer.
After shaking off a pre-dawn counterattack on Tinian Monday, the American forces that invaded that island Sunday broadened and deepened their hold. Heavy casualties were inflicted…
Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982.
invadir
To infest or overrun.
The picnic was invaded by ants.