invader
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- noun
- /ɪnˈveɪdər/
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invasor
- The villagers prepared to defend themselves against the invaders who were attempting to take over their land.
- foreign invaders
- resist the invaders
- push back the invaders
So the white colonial invaders of India are the bad people.
- So the white colonial invaders of India are the bad people.
- As it turns out, the Vikings are the last invaders.
- And when the Yankee invaders do arrive at her doorstep, she doesn't hesitate to tell them just what she thinks of them.
- They have no place to go and an invader comes in there and tells him, you know, leave or die and they they choose to stay and fight.
- Remember, they they, they lose the the World War One, but they then win the revolution and they win the civil war and they expel the invaders.
- And the man that murdered him is the invader who was a masked man.
- God knows who they are, an uninvited invader.
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We threw everything we had at the invaders.
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The invaders changed the planet's atmosphere, creating an eternal night.
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Any invader force on this planet or anywhere else?
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the United States was the primary invader of Iraq.
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But imagine if we did have an invader from space that threatened all of humanity.
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Father, the invaders are destroying our world.
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But when invaders threatened us from the sea, you joined together to defend our lands.
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The indigenous group serves as labor for the invaders, which causes economic disruption.
Academic text (1996) -
The UN had devised a plan to defeat the invaders; details would arrive soon.
Fiction book (1998) -
For several heart-stopping hours, America seemed to be at the mercy of terrible alien invaders.
Academic text (2011)
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Etymology
The word invader comes from the Latin parts in- 'into' and vadere 'to go', so it literally means someone who 'goes into' a place. That's why an invader usually means a person or army that enters by force to take control.