Invade vs Pervade - What's the difference?
invade | pervade |
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.
To be in every part of; to spread through
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*:"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places."
As verbs the difference between invade and pervade
is that invade is to move into while pervade is to be in every part of; to spread through.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.