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Invasive   /ɪnvˈeɪsɪv/   Listen
Invasive

adjective
1.
Relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision.
2.
Marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue.
3.
Involving invasion or aggressive attack.  Synonyms: incursive, invading.
4.
Gradually intrusive without right or permission.  Synonyms: encroaching, trespassing.  "Invasive tourists" , "Trespassing hunters"



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... proceeds with speed and regularity. Strict discipline is maintained; all things paid for, damage carefully avoided: "We come, not as invasive enemies of you or of the Queen of Hungary, but as protective friends of Silesia and of her Majesty's rights there;—her Majesty once allowing us (as it is presumable she will) our own rights in this Province, no man shall meddle with hers, while we continue here." To that ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XII. (of XXI.) • Thomas Carlyle


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