Invade vs Inviolate - What's the difference?
invade | inviolate |
To move into.
* Spenser
To enter by force in order to conquer.
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To infest or overrun.
To attack; to infringe; to encroach on; to violate.
Not violated; free from violation or hurt of any kind; secure against violation or impairment.
Incorruptible.
As a verb invade
is to move into.As an adjective inviolate is
not violated; free from violation or hurt of any kind; secure against violation or impairment.invade
English
Verb
(invad)- Under some circumstances police are allowed to invade a person's privacy.
- Which becomes a body, and doth then invade / The state of life, out of the grisly shade.
- Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982.
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- The picnic was invaded by ants.
- The king invaded the rights of the people.
inviolate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His fortune of arms was still inviolate . — Francis Bacon.
- Inviolate truth. — Denham.
- There chaste Alceste lives inviolate . — Spenser.