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in·vad·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. incursive, invading, invasiveadjective

    involving invasion or aggressive attack

    "invasive war"

GCIDE

  1. invadingadjective

    same as invasive.

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  1. invading

    Invading refers to the act of entering a place, situation or sphere forcefully or without invitation or right, often with harmful or disruptive effects. This can be used in various contexts such as military, medical, geographical or cultural to describe hostile intrusion or unwelcome encroachment. In biology, it can describe the spread of diseases or species into new habitats or hosts.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Invading

    of Invade

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of invading in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of invading in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of invading in a Sentence

  1. Gauri Maulekhi:

    It is not a 'monkey menace' but a human menace invading wildlife by cutting forests at large scale and allowing industries, human encroachments in forests are pushing out wild animals like monkeys from their settlements in search of food and shelter.

  2. David McGuire:

    We shouldnt write off tools that might help mitigate the problem. But we also must recognize that technology is no magic pill to stemming the pandemic, towns and the state should be wary of self-interested, privacy-invading companies using COVID-19 as a chance to market their products and create future business opportunities.

  3. William Sweet:

    What we thought was extremely rare, large floods invading coastal cities on a regular basis, is becoming more and more probable, the gap between our infrastructure and the global sea level is narrowing.

  4. David Schanzer:

    But despite the horrific attacks, the reasons against a large-scale land invasion by U.S. and NATO forces against ISIS in Iraq and Syria remain, such an invasion will deepen the extremist narrative of clash of civilization between the West and Muslims, will insert our militaries into a deep, nasty, and unwinnable civil war, and the invading force will eventually be responsible for reconstructing a semblance of order and governance in (a) chaotic region infected with sectarian divisions.

  5. Jonathan Wachtel:

    As fighters, they have a reputation that goes back centuries of being ferocious and instilling fear among invading armies that tried and failed to crush them. So, you end up with Chechen characters in novels by Tolstoy and Pushkin, some of the great literary giants of Russian literature, and this fear of the Chechens fighter is not for nothing.

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