Verb

• S: (v) invade, occupy (march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation) "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) infest, overrun (invade in great numbers) "the roaches infested our kitchen"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (v) attack, assail (launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with) "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week"
• S: (v) submarine (attack by submarine) "The Germans submarined the Allies"
• S: (v) pepper, pelt (attack and bombard with or as if with missiles) "pelt the speaker with questions"
• S: (v) strike, hit (make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target) "The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1, 1939"; "We must strike the enemy's oil fields"; "in the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to 2"
• S: (v) counterattack, counterstrike (make a counterattack)
• S: (v) gas (attack with gas; subject to gas fumes) "The despot gassed the rebellious tribes"
• S: (v) storm, surprise (attack by storm; attack suddenly)
• S: (v) blitz (attack suddenly and without warning) "Hitler blitzed Poland"
• S: (v) invade, occupy (march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation) "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939"
• S: (v) besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumvent (surround so as to force to give up) "The Turks besieged Vienna"
• S: (v) bombard, bomb (throw bombs at or attack with bombs) "The Americans bombed Dresden"
• S: (v) strafe (attack with machine guns or cannon fire from a low-flying plane) "civilians were strafed in an effort to force the country's surrender"
• S: (v) cannonade (attack with cannons or artillery)
• S: (v) torpedo (attack or hit with torpedoes)
• S: (v) raid, bust (search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on) "The police raided the crack house"
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• Somebody ----s something
• Something ----s something
• S: (v) intrude on, invade, obtrude upon, encroach upon (to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate) "This new colleague invades my territory"; "The neighbors intrude on your privacy"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) invade, overrun, infest (occupy in large numbers or live on a host) "the Kudzu plant infests much of the South and is spreading to the North"
• S: (v) invade (penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way) "The cancer had invaded her lungs"