Invade vs Storm - What's the difference?
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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.
Any disturbed state of the atmosphere, especially as affecting the earth's surface, and strongly implying destructive or unpleasant weather.
* Shakespeare
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A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; violent outbreak.
* Shakespeare
(meteorology) a wind scale for very strong wind, stronger than a gale, less than a hurricane (10 or higher on the Beaufort scale).
(military) A violent assault on a stronghold or fortified position.
To move quickly and noisily like a storm, usually in a state of uproar or anger.
To assault (a stronghold or fortification) with military forces.
Invade is a related term of storm.
As a verb invade
is to move into.As a proper noun storm is
.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.
storm
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) storm, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Noun
(en noun)- We hear this fearful tempest sing, / Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm .
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- The proposed reforms have led to a political storm .
- Her sister / Began to scold and raise up such a storm .
Hyponyms
* See alsoCoordinate terms
* (meteorology) breeze, gale, hurricaneDerived terms
* barnstorm * bestorm * duststorm * leafstorm * sandstorm * snowstorm * storm in a tea-kettle * stormlike * stormtrooper * stormy * thunderstorm * windstormSee also
* blizzardEtymology 2
From (etyl) stormen, sturmen, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- She stormed out of the room.
- Troops stormed the complex.