INVADEとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɪnˈveɪd/
• Homophone: inveighed
• 韻: -eɪd

動詞

invade (third-person singular simple present invades, present participle invading, simple past and past participle invaded)

1. (transitive) To move into.

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

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 37:

     Which becomes a body, and doth then invade / The state of life, out of the griesly shade.

2. (transitive) To enter by force, usually in order to conquer.

   Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982.

   • 1944 July 26 [1944 July 25], “Yank Forces Join on Shore Of Apra Harbor”, in The Washington Post‎, number 24,877, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 7:

     After shaking off a pre-dawn counterattack on Tinian Monday, the American forces that invaded that island Sunday broadened and deepened their hold. Heavy casualties were inflicted on the Japanese in breaking up the attack and five enemy tanks destroyed.

   • 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     When a typical gaffe has him invading the Beagle and trying to rob Charles Darwin (David Tennant), he learns that his beloved “parrot” Polly is actually a dodo bird.

   • 2014, Annette H. Tomarken, The Smile of Truth: The French Satirical Eulogy and Its Antecedents, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 6–7:

     […] Polycrates' encomium on mice dwelt upon their service to the Egyptians in gnawing the bowstrings and shield handles of invading enemies, while Philostratus, praising hair, gave examples of long-haired heroes at Troy. Appion's praise of adultery recalls the love affairs of Zeus and other gods, and Libanus stresses the good parentage of Thersites, ugliest of the Greeks who fought against Troy. But for all their diversity of individual arguments, the overall pattern for these playful or "adoxographic" works remains that of the serious encomium, and their subject matter can conveniently be grouped under the three broad headings of vice, disease, and animals.

   • 2022 April 30, Dan Merica, “A tough state in a tough year: Tim Ryan looks to overcome Democratic headwinds in Ohio”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 01 May 2022:

     “This is the competition,” Ryan said. “And if we can’t have a national conversation about the red China communist government trying to displace us, looking the other way when Russia invades Ukraine and trying to outfox us at every turn … then we’re all going to be speaking Mandarin in 10 or 15 years.”

   • 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 75:

     And this year, some of the granite facades have a new addition - the blue and yellow of the flag of Ukraine. It's hardly surprising to see the Scots, a nation more attuned to independence than some, showing solidarity with a country brutally invaded by Russia.

3. (transitive) To infest or overrun.

   The picnic was invaded by ants.

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

   The king invaded the rights of the people.

   • 2002 July, George Reiger, “More Bad News on Big Birds”, in Field & Stream, volume CVII, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Times Mirror Magazines, →ISSN, page 56:

     There are only two ways to remedy the mute-swan situation: Pay people to locate nests and addle their eggs (addling means shaking each egg hard to kill the embryo inside; if you smash the eggs, the birds will lay replacements, but swans will sit on addled eggs and not lay more), or authorized licensed hunters to shoot the birds. Addling is not only time consuming and expensive, but it's also dangerous because swans regard people who invade their nesting territory as just a larger kind of raccoon.

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

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “move into”): evade

関連する語

• See also: in-#Related terms

アナグラム

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