Invasive vs Intrude - What's the difference?
invasive | intrude |
That invades a foreign country using military force.
(of a plant or animal) That grows in environments which do not harbor natural enemes, often to the detriment of native species or of food or garden flora and fauna.
(medicine) (of a carcinoma etc'') That invades healthy tissue; (''of a procedure ) in which part of the body is entered
Intrusive on one's privacy.
To thrust oneself in; to come or enter without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass.
* I. Watts
As an adjective invasive
is that invades a foreign country using military force.As a noun invasive
is an invasive organism, as, a plant or animal.As a verb intrude is
to thrust oneself in; to come or enter without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass.invasive
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(en adjective)Derived terms
* invasively * invasiveness * noninvasiveintrude
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(intrud)- to intrude''' on families at unseasonable hours; to '''intrude on the lands of another
- Some thoughts rise and intrude upon us, while we shun them; others fly from us, when we would hold them.