invasion
Americannoun
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an act or instance of invading or entering as an enemy, especially by an army.
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the entrance or advent of anything troublesome or harmful, as disease.
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entrance as if to take possession or overrun.
the annual invasion of the resort by tourists.
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infringement by intrusion.
noun
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the act of invading with armed forces
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any encroachment or intrusion
an invasion of rats
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the onset or advent of something harmful, esp of a disease
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pathol the spread of cancer from its point of origin into surrounding tissues
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the movement of plants to a new area or to an area to which they are not native
Other Word Forms
- preinvasion adjective
- reinvasion noun
Etymology
Origin of invasion
1400–50; late Middle English < Late Latin invāsīon- (stem of invāsiō ), equivalent to invās ( us ), past participle of invādere + -iōn- -ion; invade
Example Sentences
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These two countries, lying between Iran and the Russian Caucasus, have become essential to aviation since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
From Barron's
He estimates that this kind of damage could send oil prices higher than $130 a barrel, which was the peak after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
UK inflation, which measures the pace of price rises, has eased relative to the heights reached immediately after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine four years ago.
From BBC
In January, Venture Global won an arbitration case against Repsol, which had accused the supplier of breaching contracts to profit from a surge in energy prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
From Barron's
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve currently holds about 415 million barrels of crude that he could decide to tap, much the way Biden did after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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