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adjective

Invasive adj.

Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive. "Invasive war."

(Med.) Tending to spread, especially tending to intrude into healthy tissue; used mostly of tumors. (Narrower terms: malignant) PJC)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Invasive" Quotes from Famous Books

... claim connected with that fort. But the possession of the fort can not, in regard to the State of South Carolina, be compensated by any consideration of any kind from the Government of the United States, when the possession of it by the Government is invasive of the dignity and affects the safety of the State. That possession can not become now a matter of discussion or negotiation. You will, therefore, require from the President of the United States a positive and ...

— The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government • Jefferson Davis

... string Rang, and sprang inward, and the waterish air Hissed, and the moist plumes of the songless reeds Moved as a wave which the wind moves no more. But the boar heaved half out of ooze and slime His tense flank trembling round the barbed wound, Hateful, and fiery with invasive eyes And bristling with intolerable hair Plunged, and the hounds clung, and green flowers and white Reddened and broke all round them where they came. And charging with sheer tusk he drove, and smote Hyleus; and sharp death caught his sudden soul, And violent sleep shed ...

— Atalanta in Calydon • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... tramples upon more than one pair of feet in his struggle to reach the middle of the omnibus. The passengers patiently submit to the intrusion with that quiet good nature with which Americans usually suffer imposition invasive of good manners, or petty social rights. They seem to feel they can "stand it" ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 6, May 7, 1870 • Various

... physician believes we "are even now in a state of semi-barbarism": invasive procedures for the prolongation of death rather than prolongation of life; "faith" as slimly based as medieval faith in minute differences between control and treated groups; statistical manipulation to prove a prejudice. Medicine has a good ...

— The Professor at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

... modern bedroom: a brief brightness, night and the odor of carrion, a crucified lion, a dying woman, the jeering of ribald mercenaries, the cackle of M. Homais. It is all one. If Flaubert deserved prosecution, it was not for making vice attractive, but for expressing with invasive energy that personal and desperately pessimistic conception of life by ...

— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert