Synonyms for invade
ɪnˈveɪdin·vade

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1. invadeverb

   To attack is to begin hostilities of any kind. A general invades a country by marching in troops; he attacks a city by drawing up an army against it; he assaults it by hurling his troops directly upon its defenses. Assail and assault, tho of the same original etymology, have diverged in meaning, so that assault alone retains the meaning of direct personal violence. One may assail another with reproaches; he assaults him with a blow, a brandished weapon, etc. Armies or squadrons charge; combat and encounter may be said of individual contests. To beset is to set around, or, so to speak, to stud one's path, with menaces, attacks, or persuasions. To besiege and beleaguer are the acts of armies. To encounter is to meet face to face, and may be said either of the attacking or of the resisting force or person, or of both.

   Synonyms:
   assail, assault, attack, attack, beleaguer, beset, besiege, charge, combat, encounter, fall upon, set upon, storm

   Antonyms:
   aid, befriend, cover, defend, protect, resist, shelter, shield, support, sustain, uphold, withstand

   Preposition:
   We were attacked by the enemy with cannon and musketry.

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1. invade

   Synonyms:
   attack, assault, encroach, occupy, assail, violate, encroach upon, intrude upon, infringe upon, trench upon

   Antonyms:
   vacate, abandon, evacuate, relinquish

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1. invade, occupyverb

   march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation

   "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"

   Synonyms:
   lodge in, occupy, encroach upon, engross, obtrude upon, intrude on, busy, worry, absorb, engage, reside, concern, overrun, fill, infest, interest, take, use up

2. intrude on, invade, obtrude upon, encroach uponverb

   to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate

   "This new colleague invades my territory"; "The neighbors intrude on your privacy"

   Synonyms:
   overrun, encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon, infest, occupy

3. invade, overrun, infestverb

   occupy in large numbers or live on a host

   "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"

   Synonyms:
   well over, encroach upon, intrude on, overrun, run over, brim over, obtrude upon, occupy, overflow, infest

4. invadeverb

   penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way

   "The cancer had invaded her lungs"

   Synonyms:
   overrun, encroach upon, intrude on, obtrude upon, infest, occupy

Matched Categories

1. • Attack
   • Permeate

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1. invadeverb

   Synonyms:
   attack, assail, assault

2. invadeverb

   Synonyms:
   infringe, violate, encroach upon, trench upon

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1. invadeverb

   Synonyms:
   infringe, encroach, trespass, intrench, trench

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1. List of paraphrases for "invade":

   invades, invasion, devastate, encroach, aggression

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1. Joe Biden:

   It’s one thing if it’s a minor incursion, and then we end up having a fight about what to do and not do, et cetera, but if they actually do what they’re capable of doing with the forces amassed on the border, it is going to be a disaster for Russia if they further invade Ukraine.

2. Sam Cranny-Evans:

   In terms of timelines, what we've seen up until now has been very overt signaling of the intention for the ability to invade Ukraines Donetsk.

3. Anthony Shaffer:

   He was going for a decapitation of the Ukrainian leadership, if you cut off the head you don’t need to invade everywhere else.

4. Michael Cole:

   The developments in Russia demonstrate the assumptions that autocratic leadership will always make rational decisions have been thoroughly destroyed by Vladimir Putin -- in Vladimir Putin decision to invade Ukraine, it does not mean that Xi Jinping will tomorrow decide to use force against Taiwan because Xi Jinping friend in Moscow decided to do so against Ukraine.

5. Joe Biden:

   If Russia makes a choice to further invade Ukraine, we are jointly ready, and all of NATO is ready.