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verb
verb
- invade in great numbers
- seize the position of and defeat
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- run beyond or past
- occupy in large numbers or live on a host
- (intransitive) To continue for too long.
- (transitive) To infest, swarm over, flow over.
- (transitive) To run past; to run beyond.
- (transitive) To run past the end of.
- (printing, transitive) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
- (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
- (transitive) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
- (transitive) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
noun
- too much production or more than expected
- (food) Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.
- An instance of overrunning.
- (aviation) An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely.
- (printing) A turnover: a break to a new line by text flowing within the column.
- The amount by which something overruns.
verb
- march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation
- to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate
- occupy in large numbers or live on a host
- penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way
- To make an unwelcome or uninvited visit or appearance, usually with an intent to cause trouble or some other unpleasant situation.
- (transitive) To enter by force, usually in order to conquer.
- (transitive) To move into.
- (transitive) To infest or overrun.
- To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.
verb
- march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation
- assume, as of positions or roles
- occupy the whole of
- be on the mind of
- require (time or space)
- consume all of one's attention or time
- keep busy with
- live (in a certain place)
- To live or reside in.
- To fill space.
- To hold the attention of.
- To fill or hold (an official position or role).
- (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
- (military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
- To fill.
- To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
noun
- an invasion or hostile attack
- an encroachment or intrusion
- (figuratively, usually in the plural) Often followed by in, into, or on: initial progress made toward accomplishing a goal or solving a problem.
- (military, also figuratively) An advance into enemy territory, an attempted invasion; an encroachment, an incursion.
noun
- An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion in the general sense.
- an attack that penetrates into enemy territory
- A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of destruction, plunder, or bodily harm rather than an intent to conquer territory or alter the established government; contrast invasion in its narrow sense.
- (Australia) A function hosted within an educational institution, especially by or for students, for recreation, research, education or a display of works.
- the mistake of incurring liability or blame
- the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers)
noun
- the act of invading; the act of an army that invades for conquest or plunder
- (pathology) the spread of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells to new sites in the body
- any entry into an area not previously occupied
- (surgery) The breaching of the skin barrier.
- A military action consisting of a large armed force of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of conquering territory or altering the established government.
- The entry without consent of an individual or group into an area where they are not wanted.
- (medicine) The spread of cancer cells, bacteria and such to the organism.
verb
- To annex a territory by conquest or invasion; to conquer.
- To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
- To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To become more successful than (someone or something else).
- To relieve someone temporarily.
- To appropriate something without permission.
- To buy out the ownership of a business.
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
- take up and practice as one's own
- take up, as of debts or payments
- do over
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
noun
- any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims
- (countable) Any of a series of religious campaigns by Christian forces from the 11th to the 13th century, mostly to capture the Holy Land from the Muslims and Jews who inhabited it.
adj
- involving invasion or aggressive attack
- Of or pertaining to invasion; offensive.
- gradually intrusive without right or permission
- marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue
- relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision
- (medicine, surgery) Of a procedure: involving the entry of an instrument into part of the body.
- Originating externally.
- Intrusive on one's privacy, rights, sphere of activity, etc.
- (pathology) Of a carcinoma or other abnormal growth: that invades healthy tissue, especially rapidly.
- (biology) Of an animal or plant: that grows (especially uncontrollably) in environments which do not harbour natural enemies, often to the detriment of native species or of food or garden flora and fauna.
- (military, also figuratively) That invades a foreign country using military force; also, militarily aggressive.
noun
verb
- make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- (intransitive) To wreak destruction.
- (transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
- (slang) To rape.
- (slang) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack.
noun
noun
- a direct and violent assault on a stronghold
- a violent commotion or disturbance
- a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
- A heavy expulsion or fall of things (as blows, objects which are thrown, etc.).
- (Canada, US, chiefly in the plural) Ellipsis of storm window (“a second window (originally detachable) attached on the exterior side of a window in climates with harsh winters, to add an insulating layer of still air between the outside and inside”).
- A violent agitation of human society; a domestic, civil, or political commotion.
- (pathology) Chiefly with a qualifying word: a violent attack of diease, pain, physiological reactions, symptoms, etc.; a paroxysm.
- (military) A violent assault on a fortified position or stronghold.
- (by extension) Synonym of cyclone (“a weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure”).
- (meteorology) A disturbed state of the atmosphere between a severe or strong gale and a hurricane on the modern Beaufort scale, with a wind speed of between 89 and 102 kilometres per hour (55–63 miles per hour; 10 on the scale, known as a "storm" or whole gale), or of between 103 and 117 kilometres per hour (64–72 miles per hour; 11 on the scale, known as a "violent storm").
- (by extension) A heavy fall of precipitation (hail, rain, or snow) or bout of lightning and thunder without strong winds; a hail storm, rainstorm, snowstorm, or thunderstorm.
- A violent commotion or outbreak of sounds, speech, thoughts, etc.; also, an outpouring of emotion.
- Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation.
verb
- behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning
- take by force
- blow hard
- attack by storm; attack suddenly
- (figurative, often poetic) To assault or gain control or power over (someone's heart, mind, etc.).
- To be exposed to harsh (especially cold) weather.
- (chiefly military) To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.
- (British, dialectal, agriculture) To protect (seed-hay) from stormy weather by putting sheaves of them into small stacks.
- (by extension, especially in command economies) To catch up (on production output) by making frenzied or herculean efforts.
- To be in a violent temper; to use harsh language; to fume, to rage.
- To disturb or trouble (someone).
- (by extension, chiefly military) To move quickly in the course of an assault on a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.
- To move noisily and quickly like a storm (noun etymology 1 sense 1), usually in a state of anger or uproar.
- Of the weather: to be violent, with strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
- To use (harsh language).
- To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or something) violently.
- (impersonal, chiefly US) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
verb
- (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
- fortify by surrounding with trenches
- impinge or infringe upon
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- set, plant, or bury in a trench
- cut or carve deeply into
- dig a trench or trenches
noun
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
- a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- any long ditch cut in the ground
noun
- A falling upon or invasion.
- A way down.
- (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing.
- An instance of descending; act of coming down.
- A drop to a lower status or condition; decline.
- Lineage or hereditary derivation.
- A sloping passage or incline.
- the act of changing your location in a downward direction
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a movement downward
- the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
- properties attributable to your ancestry
- a downward slope or bend
noun
noun
- an attack that penetrates into enemy territory
- the act of entering into or through something
- the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman
- the ability to make way into or through something
- clear or deep perception of a situation
- the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target)
- The insertion of the penis (or similar object) during sexual intercourse.
- The act of penetrating something.
- The act of penetrating a given situation with the mind or faculties; perception, discernment.
- (marketing) The proportion of the target audience who buy or use the specified product or service.
- (blackjack) A number or fraction that represents how many cards/decks will be dealt before shuffling, in contrast to the total number of cards/decks in play.
- The act of progressing or moving forward through or into something.
adj
intj
verb
verb
- To go to war; to make military advances.
- (figurative) To make steady progress.
- (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers
- (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
- (transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
- force to march
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- walk ostentatiously
- cause to march or go at a marching pace
- march in a procession
- march in protest; take part in a demonstration
- walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride
noun
- A journey so walked.
- (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
- A political rally or parade.
- A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, by bands, and in ceremonies.
- Steady forward movement or progression.
- Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
- (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
- district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area
- the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind)
- a procession of people walking together
- a steady advance
- genre of music written for marching
noun
- The defence of the sovereignty of individual European countries in the face of broader European or European Union integration.
- A doctrine which supports acquiring or preserving the political independence of a nation, region or group, from external or higher-level entities (e.g. federalism or supranational unions like the UN) or from internal (e.g. ethnic or sexual minority) groups it considers subversive.
noun
- The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
- Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
- (libertarianism) The initiation or threat of conflict; coercion.
- The practice or habit of launching attacks.
- a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack
- the act of initiating hostilities
- a disposition to behave aggressively
- deliberately unfriendly behavior
- violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To assail or attack (someone) from all sides; to set about.
- To occupy and block (an entrance, a passage, etc.), especially to prevent people from passing.
- (figurative) Of dangers, difficulties, enemies, etc.: to negatively affect (someone or something); to trouble.
- (chiefly passive voice) To decorate (someone or something) by surrounding with accessories, etc.
- assail or attack on all sides
- annoy continually or chronically
- decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems)
noun
- the act of conquering
- an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone
- success in mastering something difficult
- (colloquial, figurative) A person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex, or the act of gaining another's romantic affections.
- (video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.
- (by extension, often figuratively) An act or instance of gaining control of or mastery over something, overcoming obstacles.
- That which is conquered; possession gained by mental or physical effort, force, or struggle.
- An act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
verb
noun
- any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries
- (Japan) buffet; smorgasbord
- (historical) Scandinavian/Northern European seafarers, most familiarly raiders and pirates during the Viking age.
- (by extension, fantasy) A stock character common in the fantasy genre, namely a barbarian, generally equipped with an axe or sword and a helmet adorned with horns.
- (colloquial, humorous, mildly offensive) An ethnic Swede, Norwegian, Dane, Icelander or Faroe Islander.
- (American football) A player on the Minnesota Vikings NFL team.
- (colloquial) A Norseman (medieval Scandinavian).
name
adj
noun
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
adj
- suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc
- meant or adapted for an occasion or use
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
- Of an action or thing: morally good; positive.
- Of an action or thing: pleasant.
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit
- attract; cause to be enamored
- succeed in representing or expressing something intangible
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- (transitive) To reproduce convincingly.
- (transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
- (transitive, figurative) To take hold of.
- (transitive) To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
- (transitive) To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
noun
- the act of taking of a person by force
- a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field
- any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle
- the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property
- the removal of an opponent's piece from the chess board
- The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
- Something that has been captured; a captive.
- The recording or storage of something for later playback.
- An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
- (computing, regular expressions) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- affect
- hook by a pull on the line
- take or capture by force
- capture the attention or imagination of
- take into your hands deliberately
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
- (transitive, law) Alternative spelling of seise (“to vest ownership of an estate in land”).
- (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
- (law) (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
- (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
- (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
- (ambitransitive, cooking) Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
- (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
- (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
- (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
- (UK, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
- (intransitive) To have a seizure.
noun
- an invasion or hostile attack
- an encroachment or intrusion
- (figuratively, usually in the plural) Often followed by in, into, or on: initial progress made toward accomplishing a goal or solving a problem.
- (military, also figuratively) An advance into enemy territory, an attempted invasion; an encroachment, an incursion.
noun
- An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion in the general sense.
- an attack that penetrates into enemy territory
- A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of destruction, plunder, or bodily harm rather than an intent to conquer territory or alter the established government; contrast invasion in its narrow sense.
- (Australia) A function hosted within an educational institution, especially by or for students, for recreation, research, education or a display of works.
- the mistake of incurring liability or blame
- the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers)
noun
- the act of invading; the act of an army that invades for conquest or plunder
- (pathology) the spread of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells to new sites in the body
- any entry into an area not previously occupied
- (surgery) The breaching of the skin barrier.
- A military action consisting of a large armed force of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of conquering territory or altering the established government.
- The entry without consent of an individual or group into an area where they are not wanted.
- (medicine) The spread of cancer cells, bacteria and such to the organism.
noun
- any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims
- (countable) Any of a series of religious campaigns by Christian forces from the 11th to the 13th century, mostly to capture the Holy Land from the Muslims and Jews who inhabited it.
noun
- a direct and violent assault on a stronghold
- a violent commotion or disturbance
- a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
- A heavy expulsion or fall of things (as blows, objects which are thrown, etc.).
- (Canada, US, chiefly in the plural) Ellipsis of storm window (“a second window (originally detachable) attached on the exterior side of a window in climates with harsh winters, to add an insulating layer of still air between the outside and inside”).
- A violent agitation of human society; a domestic, civil, or political commotion.
- (pathology) Chiefly with a qualifying word: a violent attack of diease, pain, physiological reactions, symptoms, etc.; a paroxysm.
- (military) A violent assault on a fortified position or stronghold.
- (by extension) Synonym of cyclone (“a weather phenomenon consisting of a system of winds rotating around a centre of low atmospheric pressure”).
- (meteorology) A disturbed state of the atmosphere between a severe or strong gale and a hurricane on the modern Beaufort scale, with a wind speed of between 89 and 102 kilometres per hour (55–63 miles per hour; 10 on the scale, known as a "storm" or whole gale), or of between 103 and 117 kilometres per hour (64–72 miles per hour; 11 on the scale, known as a "violent storm").
- (by extension) A heavy fall of precipitation (hail, rain, or snow) or bout of lightning and thunder without strong winds; a hail storm, rainstorm, snowstorm, or thunderstorm.
- A violent commotion or outbreak of sounds, speech, thoughts, etc.; also, an outpouring of emotion.
- Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation.
verb
- behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning
- take by force
- blow hard
- attack by storm; attack suddenly
- (figurative, often poetic) To assault or gain control or power over (someone's heart, mind, etc.).
- To be exposed to harsh (especially cold) weather.
- (chiefly military) To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.
- (British, dialectal, agriculture) To protect (seed-hay) from stormy weather by putting sheaves of them into small stacks.
- (by extension, especially in command economies) To catch up (on production output) by making frenzied or herculean efforts.
- To be in a violent temper; to use harsh language; to fume, to rage.
- To disturb or trouble (someone).
- (by extension, chiefly military) To move quickly in the course of an assault on a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.
- To move noisily and quickly like a storm (noun etymology 1 sense 1), usually in a state of anger or uproar.
- Of the weather: to be violent, with strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
- To use (harsh language).
- To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or something) violently.
- (impersonal, chiefly US) Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
noun
- A falling upon or invasion.
- A way down.
- (topology) A particular extension of the idea of gluing.
- An instance of descending; act of coming down.
- A drop to a lower status or condition; decline.
- Lineage or hereditary derivation.
- A sloping passage or incline.
- the act of changing your location in a downward direction
- the hereditary derivation of an individual
- a movement downward
- the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors
- properties attributable to your ancestry
- a downward slope or bend
noun
noun
- an attack that penetrates into enemy territory
- the act of entering into or through something
- the act (by a man) of inserting his penis into the vagina of a woman
- the ability to make way into or through something
- clear or deep perception of a situation
- the depth to which something penetrates (especially the depth reached by a projectile that hits a target)
- The insertion of the penis (or similar object) during sexual intercourse.
- The act of penetrating something.
- The act of penetrating a given situation with the mind or faculties; perception, discernment.
- (marketing) The proportion of the target audience who buy or use the specified product or service.
- (blackjack) A number or fraction that represents how many cards/decks will be dealt before shuffling, in contrast to the total number of cards/decks in play.
- The act of progressing or moving forward through or into something.
noun
- The defence of the sovereignty of individual European countries in the face of broader European or European Union integration.
- A doctrine which supports acquiring or preserving the political independence of a nation, region or group, from external or higher-level entities (e.g. federalism or supranational unions like the UN) or from internal (e.g. ethnic or sexual minority) groups it considers subversive.
noun
- The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
- Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
- (libertarianism) The initiation or threat of conflict; coercion.
- The practice or habit of launching attacks.
- a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack
- the act of initiating hostilities
- a disposition to behave aggressively
- deliberately unfriendly behavior
- violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked
noun
- the act of conquering
- an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone
- success in mastering something difficult
- (colloquial, figurative) A person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex, or the act of gaining another's romantic affections.
- (video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.
- (by extension, often figuratively) An act or instance of gaining control of or mastery over something, overcoming obstacles.
- That which is conquered; possession gained by mental or physical effort, force, or struggle.
- An act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
verb
noun
- any of the Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of Europe from the 8th to the 11th centuries
- (Japan) buffet; smorgasbord
- (historical) Scandinavian/Northern European seafarers, most familiarly raiders and pirates during the Viking age.
- (by extension, fantasy) A stock character common in the fantasy genre, namely a barbarian, generally equipped with an axe or sword and a helmet adorned with horns.
- (colloquial, humorous, mildly offensive) An ethnic Swede, Norwegian, Dane, Icelander or Faroe Islander.
- (American football) A player on the Minnesota Vikings NFL team.
- (colloquial) A Norseman (medieval Scandinavian).
name
verb
noun
verb
verb
- invade in great numbers
- seize the position of and defeat
- flow or run over (a limit or brim)
- run beyond or past
- occupy in large numbers or live on a host
- (intransitive) To continue for too long.
- (transitive) To infest, swarm over, flow over.
- (transitive) To run past; to run beyond.
- (transitive) To run past the end of.
- (printing, transitive) To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page.
- (transitive) To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively.
- (transitive) To go beyond; to extend in part beyond.
- (transitive) To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon.
noun
- too much production or more than expected
- (food) Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat.
- An instance of overrunning.
- (aviation) An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely.
- (printing) A turnover: a break to a new line by text flowing within the column.
- The amount by which something overruns.
verb
- march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation
- to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate
- occupy in large numbers or live on a host
- penetrate or assault, in a harmful or injurious way
- To make an unwelcome or uninvited visit or appearance, usually with an intent to cause trouble or some other unpleasant situation.
- (transitive) To enter by force, usually in order to conquer.
- (transitive) To move into.
- (transitive) To infest or overrun.
- To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.
verb
- march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation
- assume, as of positions or roles
- occupy the whole of
- be on the mind of
- require (time or space)
- consume all of one's attention or time
- keep busy with
- live (in a certain place)
- To live or reside in.
- To fill space.
- To hold the attention of.
- To fill or hold (an official position or role).
- (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
- (military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
- To fill.
- To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
verb
- To annex a territory by conquest or invasion; to conquer.
- To assume control of something, such as a business or enterprise, and sometimes by force.
- To adopt a further responsibility or duty.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, over.
- (transitive, intransitive) To become more successful than (someone or something else).
- To relieve someone temporarily.
- To appropriate something without permission.
- To buy out the ownership of a business.
- free someone temporarily from his or her obligations
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities
- take over ownership of; of corporations and companies
- take up and practice as one's own
- take up, as of debts or payments
- do over
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
verb
- make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
- cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
- (intransitive) To wreak destruction.
- (transitive) To devastate, destroy or lay waste to something.
- (slang) To rape.
- (slang) To have vigorous sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To pillage or plunder destructively; to sack.
noun
verb
- (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
- fortify by surrounding with trenches
- impinge or infringe upon
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- set, plant, or bury in a trench
- cut or carve deeply into
- dig a trench or trenches
noun
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
- a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- any long ditch cut in the ground
verb
- To go to war; to make military advances.
- (figurative) To make steady progress.
- (intransitive) To have common borders or frontiers
- (intransitive) To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does.
- (transitive) To cause someone to walk somewhere.
- force to march
- lie adjacent to another or share a boundary
- walk ostentatiously
- cause to march or go at a marching pace
- march in a procession
- march in protest; take part in a demonstration
- walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride
noun
- A journey so walked.
- (historical) A region at a frontier governed by a marquess.
- A political rally or parade.
- A formal, rhythmic way of walking, used especially by soldiers, by bands, and in ceremonies.
- Steady forward movement or progression.
- Any song in the genre of music written for marching (see Wikipedia's article on this type of music)
- (euchre) The feat of taking all the tricks of a hand.
- district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area
- the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind)
- a procession of people walking together
- a steady advance
- genre of music written for marching
verb
noun
verb
noun
verb
- To assail or attack (someone) from all sides; to set about.
- To occupy and block (an entrance, a passage, etc.), especially to prevent people from passing.
- (figurative) Of dangers, difficulties, enemies, etc.: to negatively affect (someone or something); to trouble.
- (chiefly passive voice) To decorate (someone or something) by surrounding with accessories, etc.
- assail or attack on all sides
- annoy continually or chronically
- decorate or cover lavishly (as with gems)
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- (transitive, British, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
adj
- suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc
- meant or adapted for an occasion or use
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous.
- Of an action or thing: morally good; positive.
- Of an action or thing: pleasant.
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit
- attract; cause to be enamored
- succeed in representing or expressing something intangible
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping
- (transitive) To reproduce convincingly.
- (transitive) To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem.
- (transitive, figurative) To take hold of.
- (transitive) To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation.
- (transitive) To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers).
noun
- the act of taking of a person by force
- a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field
- any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle
- the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property
- the removal of an opponent's piece from the chess board
- The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
- Something that has been captured; a captive.
- The recording or storage of something for later playback.
- An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem.
- (computing, regular expressions) A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
verb
- take possession of by force, as after an invasion
- take temporary possession of as a security, by legal authority
- affect
- hook by a pull on the line
- take or capture by force
- capture the attention or imagination of
- take into your hands deliberately
- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession
- (intransitive) To bind or lock in position immovably; see also seize up.
- (transitive, law) Alternative spelling of seise (“to vest ownership of an estate in land”).
- (transitive, nautical) To bind, lash or make fast, with several turns of small rope, cord, or small line.
- (law) (with of) To cause (an action or matter) to be or remain before (a certain judge or court).
- (transitive) To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance).
- (transitive) To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture.
- (ambitransitive, cooking) Of chocolate: to change suddenly from a fluid to an undesirably hard and gritty texture.
- (transitive) To take possession of (by force, law etc.).
- (transitive) To have a sudden and powerful effect upon.
- (intransitive) To lay hold in seizure, by hands or claws (+ on or upon).
- (UK, intransitive) To submit for consideration to a deliberative body.
- (intransitive) To have a seizure.
adj
- involving invasion or aggressive attack
- Of or pertaining to invasion; offensive.
- gradually intrusive without right or permission
- marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue
- relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision
- (medicine, surgery) Of a procedure: involving the entry of an instrument into part of the body.
- Originating externally.
- Intrusive on one's privacy, rights, sphere of activity, etc.
- (pathology) Of a carcinoma or other abnormal growth: that invades healthy tissue, especially rapidly.
- (biology) Of an animal or plant: that grows (especially uncontrollably) in environments which do not harbour natural enemies, often to the detriment of native species or of food or garden flora and fauna.
- (military, also figuratively) That invades a foreign country using military force; also, militarily aggressive.