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Invasive

adjective

Relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision.

Marked by a tendency to spread especially into healthy tissue.

Involving invasion or aggressive attack. Synonyms: incursive, invading.

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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