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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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Etymology of 'Invasive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Invasive" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

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