invasion
Meaning of invasion
noun
- an instance of invading a country or region with an armed force.
Napoleon's disastrous invasion of Russia in 1812
in 1546 England had to be defended from invasion
late Middle English: from late Latin invasio(n- ), from the verb invadere (see invade).
Information about invasion
- It is a name.
- The plural form of invasion is: invasions.
- Languages in which invasion is used:
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Hyphenation of invasion
in-va-sion
- It consists of 3 syllables and 8 chars.
- invasion is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
invasion synonyms
Meaning encroachment:
Meaning the action of entering and taking control of a building:
Meaning overcome and take control of (a place or people) by military force:
Meaning the action of capturing or of being captured:
Meaning the action of capturing someone or something using force:
Meaning the action of annexing something, especially territory:
Meaning add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a document:
Meaning an act of assuming control of something, especially the buying out of one company by another:
Meaning the action of appropriating something:
Meaning the action by the state or an authority of taking property from its owner for public use or benefit:
Meaning spread over or occupy (a place) in large numbers:
Meaning very great in amount:
Meaning the sudden forceful attack and capture of a building or other place by troops:
Meaning an aggressive and violent act against a person or place:
Meaning an invasion or attack, especially a sudden or brief one:
Meaning an attacking military campaign:
Meaning make a concerted or violent attack on:
Meaning a military attack or raid on an enemy position:
Meaning a fierce or destructive attack:
Meaning a sudden attack or incursion into enemy territory, especially to obtain something; a raid:
Meaning an attack made by troops coming out from a position of defence:
Meaning a rapid surprise attack on an enemy by troops, aircraft, or other armed forces:
invasion antonyms
Meaning the action of withdrawing something:
Translation of invasion
- Italian: calata, invasione
- German: Einfall, Invasion
- Spanish: irrupción, ocupación, invasión
- French: affluence, invasion
- Portuguese: invasão
Words that rhyme with invasion
Sion, sion, Iasion, Salabrasion, abrasion, antiabrasion, basion, catabasion, chemabrasion, corrasion, dermabrasion, diplasion, dissuasion, erasion, evasion, iconostasion, microinvasion, mispersuasion, nasion, nonevasion, occasion, opticonasion, overpersuasion, persuasion, pervasion, preevasion, preinvasion, prepersuasion, rasion, reevasion, reinvasion, reoccasion, repersuasion, suasion, subnasion, unpersuasion, adhesion, autolesion, cohesion, decohesion, dyshesion, exesion, hemilesion, inadhesion, incohesion, inhesion, intercohesion, lesion, mesion, microlesion
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