invade
Example Sentences
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Several fans had already invaded the pitch in order to get close to Messi, who was taking a selfie with one when another grabbed the former Barcelona playmaker around his waist.
From BBC
The sounds that invaded his New York City apartment—construction, idling trucks, car alarms—drove him to distraction.
Oil prices had surged the previous summer when Iraq invaded Kuwait but had their largest ever single day plunge after coalition bombing began in Jan. 1991.
He moved to Brussels to cover European security in 2019, but shifted his focus back to Ukraine when Russia invaded in February 2022.
Forced to flee when Russia invaded, around 5.9 million Ukrainian refugees live outside the country and another 3.7 million are displaced internally, the UN Refugee Agency says.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.