invade

Verb

invade (third-person singular simple present invades, present participle invading, simple past and past participle invaded)

1. (transitive) 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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 37
2. (transitive) To enter by force, usually in order to conquer.
   • Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982.
   • 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 on the Japanese in breaking up the attack and five enemy tanks destroyed.1944 July 26 [1944 July 25], “Yank Forces Join on Shore Of Apra Harbor”, in The Washington Post, number 24,877, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 7
3. (transitive) To infest or overrun.
   • The picnic was invaded by ants.
4. To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.
   • The king invaded the rights of the people.
   • There are only two ways to remedy the mute-swan situation: Pay people to locate nests and addle their eggs (addling means shaking each egg hard to kill the embryo inside; if you smash the eggs, the birds will lay replacements, but swans will sit on addled eggs and not lay more), or authorized...2002 July, George Reiger, “More Bad News on Big Birds”, in Field & Stream, volume CVII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Times Mirror Magazines, →ISSN, page 56
5. To make an unwelcome or uninvited visit or appearance, usually with an intent to cause trouble or some other unpleasant situation.