Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective same as
invasive {1}.
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- verb Present participle of
invade .
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- adjective involving invasion or aggressive attack
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Examples
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It cares not one wit whether the ground it's invading is damaged or healthy.
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The concept is fine: a lone time traveler who, wanting to destroy Western civilization, arranges to be captured shortly after 9/11, pretends to be one soldier in an army invading from the future, and tricks his too-clever interrogators into taking the counterproductive actions that will bring about his goal.
Stromata Blog: 2009
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No other administration ever has gone as far in invading the privacy of U.S. citizens
Will Attorney General Holder Appeal HSPD-12 Decision? - NASA Watch 2009
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It cares not one wit whether the ground it's invading is damaged or healthy.
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No other administration ever has gone as far in invading the privacy of U.S. citizens, and it would be shocking if Holder proceeds with this.
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No other administration ever has gone as far in invading the privacy of U.S. citizens, and it would be shocking if Holder proceeds with this.
Will Attorney General Holder Appeal HSPD-12 Decision? - NASA Watch 2009
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And youre right on what you said of her foreign policy views: any free nation is justified in invading an unfree one.
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"Successful" in invading and occupying a country then installing a puppet government there in order to control their oil and natural gas?
McChrystal: Finding bin Laden vital to beating al Qaeda 2009
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We have people wearing masks and raising terrorists and drug cartels invading from the south.
Top Dem aide: 'Significant policy issues' could still derail deal 2009
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So now they share a border (for the moment) with the Great Satan, who everybody knows has precisely zero interest in invading them.
White House elevates its rhetoric on Iranian election fraud. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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