Synonyms of the word

invade

• v. (transitive) To move into.
• v. (transitive) To enter by force in order to conquer.
• v. (transitive) To infest or overrun.
• v. To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.
• v. To make an unwelcome or uninvited visit or appearance, usually with an intent to cause trouble or some…

assail

• v. To attack violently using words or force.

attack

• n. An attempt to cause damage, injury to, or death of opponent or enemy.
• n. An attempt to detract from the worth or credibility of, a person, position, idea, object, or thing, by…
• n. A time in which one attacks. The offence of a battle.
• n. (cricket) Collectively, the bowlers of a cricket side.
• n. (volleyball) Any contact with the ball other than a serve or block which sends the ball across the plane…
• n. (lacrosse) The three attackmen on the field or all the attackmen of a team.
• n. (medicine) The sudden onset of a disease or condition.
• n. An active episode of a chronic or recurrent disease.
• n. (music) The onset of a musical note, particularly with respect to the strength (and duration) of that…
• n. (audio) The amount of time it takes for the volume of an audio signal to go from zero to maximum level…
• v. (transitive) To apply violent force to someone or something.
• v. (transitive) To aggressively challenge a person, idea, etc., with words (particularly in newspaper headlines,…
• v. (transitive) To begin to affect; to act upon injuriously or destructively; to begin to decompose or waste.
• v. (transitive) To deal with something in a direct way; to set to work upon.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To aim balls at the batsman’s wicket.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To set a field, or bowl in a manner designed to get wickets.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To bat aggressively, so as to score runs quickly.
• v. (soccer) To move forward in an active attempt to score a point, as opposed to trying not to concede.
• v. (cycling) To accelerate quickly in an attempt to get ahead of the other riders.

enter

• v. (intransitive) To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space.
• v. (transitive) To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted.
• v. (figuratively) To go or come into (a state or profession).
• v. (transitive) To type (something) into a computer; to input.
• v. (transitive) To record (something) in an account, ledger, etc.
• v. (intransitive, law) To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.
• v. (law, intransitive) To become effective; to come into effect.
• v. (law) To go into or upon, as lands, and take actual possession of them.
• v. (transitive, law) To place in regular form before the court, usually in writing; to put upon record in…
• v. to make report of (a vessel or its cargo) at the custom house; to submit a statement of (imported goods),…
• v. (transitive, US, dated, historical) To file, or register with the land office, the required particulars…
• v. to deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To initiate; to introduce favourably.
• n. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”).
• n. (computing) Alternative spelling of Enter (“a stroke of the computer key”).

infest

• v. (transitive) To inhabit a place in unpleasantly large numbers; to plague, harass.
• v. (pathology, of a parasite) To invade a host plant or animal.
• adj. (obsolete) Mischievous; hurtful; harassing.
• n. (obsolete) Hostility.

inhabit

• v. (transitive) To live or reside in.
• v. (transitive) To be present in; to occupy.

interpenetrate

• v. To penetrate mutually or reciprocally.
• v. To permeate or pervade.

occupy

• v. (transitive) To take or use time.
• v. (transitive) To take or use space.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
• v. (obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
• v. (obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.

overrun

• v. To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing his positions conclusively.
• v. To infest, swarm over, flow over.
• v. To run past; to run beyond.
• v. To continue for too long.
• v. (printing) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
• v. To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
• v. To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
• n. An instance of overrunning.
• n. The amount by which something overruns.

permeate

• v. (transitive) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing…
• v. (transitive) To enter and spread through; to pervade.
• n. A watery by-product of milk production.
• n. Liquid that has passed through a filtration system.