| 单词 | invade |
| 释义 | in·vade transitive verb 1. a. < soldiers invade enemy territory > b. obsolete < what madness could provoke a mortal man to invade a sleeping god — John Dryden > 2. < you can obtain legal counsel to determine if any of your rights have been invaded — R.O.Case > < when government invades the traditional area of business — A.L.Nickerson > < during his absence his house was invaded and plundered — E.D.Dickinson > < resented these queries as invading the family privacy — John Dollard > 3. a. (1) < the growing city has invaded the surrounding countryside — P.E.James > < the imagery of movement … invaded secular as well as religious literature — R.W.Southern > < doubts invade his mind > < an odor of onions invades the room > (2) < gangrene invades healthy tissue > < cholera invades the city > (3) < the bow-roofed … South Ferry Terminal, its upper deck invaded by the el structure — American Guide Series: New York City > specifically < compression … forces the granitic part of the crust downward to form a solid root and upward to invade the thick sediments of the mountain-forming belt as molten rock — W.H.Bucher > b. < at midmorning, the sun finally invades the very bottom of the gorge — Lester Womack > < two thousand skiers … invade this alpine region — R.S.Monahan > < layfolk … invaded ecclesiastical offices and revenues — G.G.Coulton > specifically c. < possums invade the corn patch > < a young and ambitious small-town girl … came to New York to invade the public-relations field — Publishers' Weekly > intransitive verb Synonyms: see trespass |
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