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Intruding vs Invasive - What's the difference?

intruding | invasive |

As nouns the difference between intruding and invasive

is that intruding is intrusion while invasive is an invasive organism, as, a plant or animal.

As a verb intruding

is .

As an adjective invasive is

that invades a foreign country using military force.

intruding

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • intrusion
  • * Herman Melville, Pierre
    • arms.

    invasive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * invasively * invasiveness * noninvasive

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An invasive organism, as, a plant or animal.
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