Word Finder - invades

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To move into.

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Under some circumstances police are allowed to invade a person's privacy.

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To enter by force in order to conquer.

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Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982.

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To infest or overrun.

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The picnic was invaded by ants.

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To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.

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The king invaded the rights of the people.

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To make an unwelcome or uninvited visit or appearance, usually with an intent to cause trouble or some other unpleasant situation.

Danger is defined as anything or anyone that invades their personal space.

This wood is in great part already dead substance, but the mycelium gradually invades the vessels occupied with the transmission of water up the trunk, cuts off the current, and so kills the tree; in other cases such Fungi attack the roots, and so induce rot and starvation of oxygen, resulting in fouling.

Sladen states that a queen belonging to the virginalis form of Bombus terrestris often invades a nest belonging to the lucorum form, kills the rightful queen, andtakespossession of the nest, getting the lucorum workers to rear her young.

On land, however, whither they resort to breed, they seek food of their own taking, whether small mammals, little birds, insects or berries; but even here their uncommon courage is exhibited, and they will defend their homes and offspring with the utmost spirit against any intruder, repeatedly shooting down on man or dog that invades their haunts, while every bird almost, from an eagle downwards, is repelled by buffets or something worse.

The granite invades this " greenrock " series at Slieve Gallion and elsewhere, but is itself pre Devonian.

This bacteria can also cause blood poisoning (septicaemia) if it invades the bloodstream.

First, computer snooping, or spying on computer users, is a reprehensible practice that invades our privacy.

An infected animal will quickly fall ill as the virus invades its body.

It invades surrounding tissue and spreads to nearby or distant organs (metastasis).

When poliovirus invades the brainstem (the stalk of brain which connects the two cerebral hemispheres with the spinal cord, called bulbar polio), a person may begin to have trouble breathing and swallowing.

The organism sometimes invades localized areas of tissue, producing meningitis, infectious arthritis, conjunctivitis, cellulitis, epiglottitis, or inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart.

When fibrous or bony tissue invades bone marrow where red blood cells are made, the individual may develop anemia.

Antihistamines block the action of the chemical histamine that is produced when the cold virus invades the cells lining the nasal passages.

Reading a short remembrance poem invades thought processes for just the right amount of time to have a true impact on them.

If jealousy often invades your thoughts, this emotion can have serious impact on the relationship.

Once the application invades your system, it's difficult if not impossible to remove.

Michaels shows up and "invades" the home of one family each week, offering advice and instructions on how to turn their lives around and get healthy.

It seems scarcely to know fear, obtruding itself on the notice of any traveller who invades its haunts, and, should he halt, making itself at once a denizen of his bivouac. In confinement it speedily becomes friendly, but suitable food for it is not easily found.