(v. t.) To go into or upon; to pass within the confines of; to enter; -- used of forcible or rude ingress.
(v. t.) To enter with hostile intentions; to enter with a view to conquest or plunder; to make an irruption into; to attack; as, the Romans invaded Great Britain.
(v. t.) To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate; as, the king invaded the rights of the people.
(v. t.) To grow or spread over; to affect injuriously and progressively; as, gangrene invades healthy tissue.
(v. i.) To make an invasion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ukip and the Greens are beneficiaries of this new political reality – as, arguably, is the SNP as it prepares to invade Labour’s heartland in Scotland next May.
(2) In cancer of the pancreas head, cancer cells could invade the portal vein and perineural space of the celiac plexus, and metastasize to regional lymph nodes around the celiac axis.
(3) It is apparent that in the development of reactive arthritis the patient fails in his first line of defence against the invading microorganism.
(4) All three parasite lines required sialic acid for optimal invasion, but Thai-2 parasites cultured in Tn erythrocytes invaded neuraminidase-treated erythrocytes with 45% efficiency whereas Camp parasites invaded neuraminidase-treated erythrocytes with less than 10% efficiency.
(5) The conclusion is that AIDS has invaded Taiwan, but the prevalence of the HIV infection is presently low.
(6) They have similar axon trajectories into the thoracic ganglia, where they invade functionally related neuropils.
(7) Worms had invaded the bile duct in 51 patients, the pancreatic duct in four and both ducts in four.
(8) Dictated by underlying physicochemical constraints, deceived at times by the lulling tones of the siren entropy, and constantly vulnerable to the vagaries of other more pervasive forms of biological networking and information transfer encoded in the genes of virus and invading microorganisms, protein biorecognition in higher life forms, and particularly in mammals, represents the finely tuned molecular avenues for the genome to transfer its information to the next generation.
(9) Survival rates after curative gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer among 238 patients in whom the cancer was invading the serosa were compared with 283 patients without serosal invasion.
(10) The immune system has evolved to protect an organism from the pathogens that invade it but the effector mechanisms involved in mediating this protection are potentially lethal to the host itself.
(11) In this report, it will be stressed that when clival chordoma invades intradually, subtemporal approach will be most favorable, and metrizamide CT cisternography is one of the useful diagnostic procedures of retroclival mass.
(12) On 21 August 1968, armies of five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany – invaded Czechoslovakia to crush democratic reforms known as the Prague spring.
(13) He had undergone pelvic exenteration with the ureterostomy for rectal cancer invading the bladder five months previously and retrograde ureteric catheters were inserted bilaterally into the ureters.
(14) The Sunni, driven from power and office by the invaders, were unwilling to accept their newly diminished status.
(15) Pterygia, triangular sheets of fibrovascular tissue that invade the cornea, have recurrence rates of 30% to 50% with currently available surgical procedures.
(16) Infections of Leishmania mexicana in cultured normal mouse peritoneal macrophages show different morphological features depending on whether the parasites invade as promastigote or amastigote forms.
(17) The interstitium between alveoli is invaded with lymphocytes, macrophages, plasma cells and fibroblasts.
(18) The hypoxic fraction increased dramatically when these tumours invaded the subcutaneous tissues, or when tumours were implanted subcutaneously (TCD50 greater than 5,544 rad).
(19) "Russia has invaded a sovereign neighbouring state and threatens a democratic government elected by its people.
(20) This report presents a patient with a tumor of the splenic flexure invading the diaphragm, greater curvature of the stomach, splenic hilum, and tail of the pancreas.
Overrun
Definition:
(p. p.) of Overrun
(v. t.) To run over; to grow or spread over in excess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass.
(v. t.) To exceed in distance or speed of running; to go beyond or pass in running.
(v. t.) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond; as, one line overruns another in length.
(v. t.) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
(v. t.) To carry over, or back, as type, from one line or page into the next after, or next before.
(v. t.) To extend the contents of (a line, column, or page) into the next line, column, or page.
(v. i.) To run, pass, spread, or flow over or by something; to be beyond, or in excess.
(v. i.) To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senior executives at Network Rail are likely to be summoned to Westminster to explain the engineering overruns that caused chaos for Christmas travellers over the weekend.
(2) Rather than experiencing a slowdown in its frenetic building sector, however, Kabul is increasingly overrun with precarious apartment blocks.
(3) Meanwhile, rebel-held eastern Aleppo has been overrun by pro-regime forces led by Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian-led Shia militias supported by Russian and Syrian regime aerial bombardment.
(4) On Wednesday the town of Mubi, home to Adamawa State University, was overrun by Boko Haram insurgents and Nigerian soldiers fled, leaving its barracks to be looted of weapons.
(5) The Office of Rail Regulation will launch an investigation into serious travel disruption caused by overrunning engineering works in London , which led to services to and from two major stations being cancelled and chaotic overcrowding at a local station to which some trains were re-routed.
(6) Hagel has said American leaders are open to discussing a safe zone, but creating one isn’t “actively being considered.” Alongside the Egyptian foreign minister, Sameh Shoukry, Kerry said at a news conference in Cairo that Kobani is “one community and it is a tragedy what is happening there.” The primary focus of the fight against the Islamic State group has been in Iraq, where the US is working to help shore up Iraqi security forces, who were overrun in many places by the militants.
(7) Areva of France has recently been on the end of serious criticism over cost-overruns and delays on the reactor it is building in Finland – the first new-build in western Europe for 30 years.
(8) | Chibundu Onuzo Read more Eva Lohse, the president of the German Association of Cities, said on Thursday: “We’re reaching the limits of our capacity.” As tensions mount in some communities over locals’ fears of being overrun, there have been several arson attacks on a number of refugee shelters in recent weeks, with reports at the weekend of a home near Leipzig being shot at on two consecutive nights.
(9) Given the industry's history of massive cost overruns – now being repeated with new reactors in France and Finland – the view that nuclear is more cost-effective than renewables is highly contentious.
(10) Predictions that an open-ended, so-called "free" medical insurance scheme would lead to cost overruns and deterioration of medical services as well as inflationary trends have come true.
(11) Gascoigne overruns the ball in midfield and then lunges with typically naive enthusiasm at Berthold.
(12) Our diplomatic relations suffered a severe setback when our Embassy compounds in Tehran were overrun in 2011 and the Vienna Convention flouted, and when the Iranian Majles voted to downgrade relations with the UK.
(13) Refugee women and children 'beaten, raped and starved in Libyan hellholes' Read more Army spokesman Col Ahmad al-Mismari said the militias had overrun the main airfield at Ras Lanuf, with the army pulling back to avoid damage to oil facilities.
(14) Despite calls for its cancellation because of delays and cost overruns, Sizewell B opens.
(15) Amateur video, the veracity of which could not be confirmed, showed a man and at least three children dead inside a room in Bayda, a neighbouring village overrun by regime forces on Thursday, showing a baby with burned legs and a body stained with blood.
(16) The ORR could, as it has previously, fine Network Rail for overrunning engineering work but customers could end up footing the bill through increased rail fares.
(17) They proved to appear in case of oblique direction in overrunning and the angle of a shred turned back was directed to the side of wheel rotatory movements, i.e.
(18) A 2012 report by the government's audit chamber found about 15bn rubles (about £260m) in "unreasonable" cost overruns in the preparations for the Sochi Olympics.
(19) Hackney Council has actually done a good job of improving the environment and by and large the borough is a fairly good place to live and not nearly as overrun with snotty upper-middle class twits as other gentrified boroughs.
(20) And when I remarked to Thurley that it seemed a shame that Stonehenge was overrun with people while even sites as nearby – and impressive – as Avebury were scarcely visited, he shrugged and said: "People just won't go there," as if this were something entirely beyond his control.