invade

Other forms of invade

past tense

invaded·

present participle

invading·

third person

invades·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about invade

What does invade mean?

invade means "march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in invade?

invade has 2 syllables: in-vade. The stress falls on "vade". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈveɪd/.

What is another word for invade?

Close synonyms include occupy, intrude on, obtrude upon, encroach upon, overrun. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is invade a common word?

invade is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with invade?

2 words rhyme with invade. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.